Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Welcome to committee in your first official capacity. Through you to the witness, the witness raised some very important questions. I would like to explore the difference between what the causation and the correlation is with some of the inconsistencies and inefficiencies that he's identified with the entire process.
He referenced specifically just the sheer volume through the immigration cases. I would ask through you, Mr. Chair, to the witness, if he would care to comment on whether or not he sees a correlation between failures in specific ministries to adequately address basic public inquiries with the rise in the rate of ATIPS. In short, is this a failure of a ministerial department that is causing the ATIPS, or is there another theory that he has, given his overview of the—