Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of you for taking time to be with us today.
This is my first time on this committee, and I look forward to the information and what this study will bring forth. Your presentation here today certainly gave us lots of information. It's information we often think about but I guess we never follow up to see just how it all ends up.
It certainly is of great benefit to all of us here today to know that Canada ranks so highly on the stage of security and with other countries as well. That was a key factor to hear as well.
Someone already asked this, but I was just wondering. You talked about the capacity within the passport program integrity branch to conduct administrative investigations to determine ongoing entitlement to a passport or entitlement to future services. You mentioned some of the many reasons an individual can be refused a passport. You talked about incarceration and other ideas. But once they have lost their passport, how long will they have lost it for? How do they go about getting it back, or do they ever get it back?