Mr. Chairman, there may be the impression that nothing has happened since 2005, but I can confirm to you that in 2005 and 2006, the department was spending a bit more than $2 million on ATIP. For the current fiscal year, the department will be spending $8.2 million to respond to ATIP. So it's not as if the department hasn't tried to increase its capacity since 2004. However, with a growth of 78% over that period of time, we've been playing catch-up.
As soon as we get rid of the backlog—and that has been part of the issue as we have carried this backlog from one year to another—the duration of.... The time it takes to process demands, of course, has increased in response to this backlog.
So by getting rid of the backlog and by building the capacity at 315,000 pages a year, that capacity should be sufficient to respond to the current volume. Moreover, once the backlog is gone, we will have a capacity to increase the ATIP unit by another 10 to 12 analysts to respond to an increase in demand.
If you're telling me that will be sufficient if WikiLeaks leads to thousands of demands in access to the information...it may not be sufficient. The problem we face is that a bit more than 42% of all demands sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs are initiated in other departments. That's a factor we don't control, so we are always in a responsive mode. But with the capacity we're putting in place right now, we hope that in fact we will be ahead of the wave, not behind the wave.