Yes, once again, it is quite ironic to hear my Liberal colleague boasting about his achievements. When they came to power, there were 50,000 people on the waiting list, and they grew that number to 800,000. If that's success, I'll pass on their kind of success.
As well, the law making an amendment seems to obfuscate it. At present, the law makes it a function of... It is somewhat like at the butcher shop: you take a number and you wait for it to come up. The bill we are proposing is designed to allow someone who deserves to be admitted faster, based on certain priorities, to be taken, for example someone in your situation, to select that person and place him or her at the top of the list.
What is important is that we be capable of analyzing, of seeing things as they are in a situation like the one in Iraq, of saying that there is a priority in Iraq, of taking groups and giving them priority, rather than waiting six or seven or eight years before being able to consider the applications by the people in the group. That is one of the priorities we are adopting. We are aware of, we are sensitive to your applications and we are making sure we will be able to give you a better result. The way things are being processed at present, by 2012 we will be saying that the waiting time will be about 10 years before we can process an immigration application, a refugee claim here in Canada. In 10 years, if it is an application... At that point we would be...