The audit report that was tabled today includes a chapter that is a follow-up to a previous audit. On the areas for which the original audit had given us some recommendations, the Auditor General did give us—I do want to point this out—a satisfactory rating. That's important because we worked very hard on meeting the commitments and the management action plan we had set out for those recommendations.
With regard to the backlog, I think there are about 2,300 or 2,400 that were identified at the time the post-audit was done, and we're at just over 300 cases that are still being dealt with within that. Quite a few of those, essentially, have been addressed and cleared.
With regard to the processes that we have put in place, we have developed a case management system. We have reduced our timelines to clear significantly because we recognize the imperatives for a number of the initiatives we have under way, so that we do, in fact, ensure the clearances within a speedy timeframe.
On the other hand, we balance that with making sure the integrity of the clearance is maintained. Again, given the nature of the work, we do have to balance timeliness with the integrity and the accuracy of the clearances we provide.
