Thank you very much, gentlemen, for being here and providing testimony.
Mr. Chair, if I may, before I ask the witnesses some questions, I want to clarify for the record a point that the previous witnesses made regarding the consular services fee.
The consular services fees collected and the costs of the consular program are publicly disclosed in the departmental result reports, which are published publicly and annually. These tables—and I can provide the analysts or the clerk the tables—show that for the past four fiscal years consular services provided have consistently and substantially outstripped the fees collected. I'd ask the analysts to please note that point because, as I say, I know that it had come up previously.