I just want to respond quickly.
There's been a lot of discussion about the complexities of regularizing people. Somehow it seems to be very complicated, yet under the low-skilled pilot project and the temporary foreign worker program, it takes a week to bring somebody here. In five days, with an LMO in a federal job bank, you can bring someone here. But then somehow the issue becomes that it's too complicated to regularize them, or to actually deal with the backlog. Somehow, under the low-skilled pilot project it takes five days, yet we have a 600,000-person backlog.
The other question around that, the other point, is the issue of security checks and family reunification. Somehow, after you're accepted there is no time limit for the background check. So you have families.... I want to speak about the Sri Lankan community. The average is supposed to be eight to twelve months to deal with somewhere around 50% to 60% of the applicants. With the majority of people we see it takes three years and onwards to actually deal with the issue of family reunification and sponsorship.
The role that the security apparatus plays in terms of CSIS being involved in these supposed background checks gives them this unlimited time. It think it's a huge part of this backlog, and that's something that hopefully will be addressed through this committee as well. There are ways to deal with this.