Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The Canadian passport is a highly desirable travel document, and for that reason it is intensively targeted by networks that want to use it for fraudulent purposes. However, it does have good security features. It's one of the harder passports to forge. That's not to say that there aren't some workshops in some parts of the world that are getting pretty good at it, but we're more likely to see a genuine document being misused than we are to see a fraudulent document.
In terms of how often we see that, I wouldn't say it's increasing. In recent years the volume that we've encountered overseas has been fairly steady, and we like to think that might have something to do with the success of the MIO network, to which I referred in my introductory remarks.
This might be an opportunity to mention the fact that what we call our interception rate overseas is 70%. That is to say, when you count the number of interceptions, interdictions overseas of persons who are improperly documented and seeking to travel to Canada, and you count the number of persons who arrive in Canada improperly documented, when you add them together that's 100%. We intercept 70% of them. We like to think that's part of the reason why we're not seeing a sharp increase in the abuse of the Canadian passport in recent years.