Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would also like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
Eight hundred dollars is how much it costs right now to pay someone to stand in line for a passport at Service Canada. Many Canadians across the country are showing up at 8:30 a.m. and sleeping overnight in an effort to obtain service. In one situation, a family made five unsuccessful attempts to go to Service Canada to receive service and were not successful in receiving their passports.
Canadians are suffering, putting off weddings, births, family vacations, honeymoons and, in far too many cases, funerals. This government restricted travel for Canadians for an extended period of time.