Mr. Chair, the application form is basically part of a citizenship screening process that is now the work in progress. The story of that process basically came from a long time ago, and it has been based on a continuum. To tell you the truth, I had basically inherited the responsibility of managing a screening process or thinking of a screening process in 2004, when a so-called entity called MAC, the ministerial advisory council, was abolished.
If you remember, my colleague Jean-Guy Fleury of the IRB basically started his own process in 2004, and as a result, that body that had been mandated by the past government to overview and make recommendations to the minister was abolished. Their duties were ended and the IRB got its own process. I was then left alone, and I basically had to propose something. Since 2004 I have been in the position of proposing a screening process.
I did start a few things. For example, we did take the responsibility of reviewing the core competency of the citizenship judge position for one single reason. Remember that there was talk of modifying the Citizenship Act. Bill C-18 was basically transforming our role as an official master of ceremonies without decision-making powers, and then there was a definition of the position that was rendered obsolete by the fact that Bill C-18 didn't materialize. As a result, I had also to build up a screening process in order to offer it to the various governments I had to work with, and this process is still not completed.
We have applications, we are screening, we have exams, we have an interview, those types of things, but basically right now I have to get from the current government an imprimatur for that process. I'm working closely with Mr. Harrison on the new device, trying to rationalize things—