Okay. One of the concerns I have is the decision to make it a ten-year period of renewal. This is tangential to our topic but pertinent to the issue of passport security generally. This was a decision that was made, as far as I've been able to ascertain, against the advice of your own department. In fact, your agency stated that
A shorter validity period allows for passports based on outdated technology or security and those reported to be lost or stolen to be withdrawn from circulation more frequently, which contributes to the security and integrity of passports internationally.
In an age when technology is changing so rapidly, where the components for microchip technology are made so much more cheaply or are so much more easily integrated into documents, I find it impossible to believe that my passport today should not be substantively different ten years from now. That's an awfully long time.
Are you not concerned that this is undermining security? Do you feel that this was an action undertaken by the government to reduce all the criticism around backlog? In other words, in making the renewal period ten years, are we reducing backlog by making a major security concession?