Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to ask some questions about your spending profile and also about your performance indicators. I was looking at the report on plans and priorities from 2010-11. You broke your spending down into two areas, resolution and internal services. In the area of resolution, there was spending of $8.3 million, and then moving up to $9.9 million for 2013-14. That's an increase of 19% over three years, so an increase of roughly 6% a year. The total—and I notice you're looking at some reductions in internal services—of $11.9 million is up to $13.8 million for 2013-14. That's an increase of 16% over three years, a little bit less than 6%.
We see an increase in spending year over year. I'm just concerned about the caseload. You mentioned in your remarks a caseload of about 6,500 active cases currently, compared to only 1,200 ten years ago. Will the additional resources that you've been deploying result in a lowering of that caseload, or is this something that's unsustainable? The caseload will just keep getting worse and worse and the backlog will just keep getting worse.