Thank you.
Thank you for coming. It's always good to see you here, talking about our foreign policy and CIDA policy.
The issue of concern lately is the passport issue, which keeps coming back in Parliament. Parliamentarians are extremely concerned on this passport issue, due to this U.S. requirement at the border.
I know you have taken some initiatives out there to expedite the issuing of passports. What I really want to know about is the timeframe. With all these initiatives you have taken—the guarantees and all these things—have we actually managed to reduce the timeframe of issuing passports? We understand it is going up, but the key element that is really facing questioning is whether we have actually reduced the time.