You have drawn our attention to a real problem. In recent decades, the federal government has closed a number of local offices throughout the country for economic reasons, and this causes us major difficulties. We are in the process of examining two or three possibilities to alleviate these difficulties.
First, we could use the services of Service Canada, which has offices that are much more dispersed around the country than immigration offices. Second, our officers already go into remote areas for citizenship reasons. We are examining the possibility of doing it more often. Third, we are examining the possibility of using technology, but we are making no promises there. For security reasons, it really is important that we hand our documents to the person named.
You are right that there is a problem, and we are in the process of trying to solve it.