Ms. Chabot, I hope you will submit these cases to my office. Otherwise, we will not be able to help these people. So I encourage you, as well as all the other members, to do so.
The fall economic update announced a $1.4‑billion investment over three years precisely to ensure we have as many tier 2 agents as needed to meet the needs. As I mentioned, we have already hired 330 people in the Quebec City region and over 1,300 people across Canada to ensure we meet the needs. They are being trained. In the Quebec City region, in the last two weeks, 220 new employees have already started working.
From the moment you raised these situations last year, we recognized that we needed to do better. I submitted a request for funds, which the Finance Minister approved, and we hired people because we want the same thing you do, which is for people to get the help they need.