Yes. Let me try to make it as short as I can.
There's often talk about the vast number of requests and how that explains why we have such a backlog and so on. Let me give you some perspective on it, please.
In the 1977 green paper a detailed analysis took place, and we had at the time the experience of the States. The States had had an act in place since 1966, and making allowances for size of population, temperament—we're far more reverent in Canada and less nosy, maybe, than our southern colleagues, and so on—the talk was that perhaps we could anticipate 70,000 requests a year. That was in 1977. The highest number we have had in the 26 years the act has been in place is 29,000 requests, last year.
Let me give you some perspective on it. In Thailand in the past three years, under the act in place since 2005, a million Thailand citizens have applied under the access regime. In the United States last year, four million requests were put in. So 29,000? In the 15 years before last year, we had an average of 13,000 requests a year. We're just barely scratching the surface, so volume is not a problem.