Mr. Ajmera, I'd like to get back to you, because we don't often have this opportunity.
I want to deal with malfeasance that you're aware of in India. I continually hear about it in my constituency office. I have a concern with people who try to get visas who are refused, and of course we have locally engaged staff. I find it problematic for people who want to come to Canada for a visit being refused so often. This is something the committee has struggled with over the years, and we have tried to look at some alternative systems.
One of the ways we thought it could have worked--and we talked about it at our committee and we heard witnesses--is that if somebody over here wants to sponsor somebody from India, if they put up a guarantee or do an undertaking, as we normally do in our courts each day when people sign sureties, which in the United States they call bail, that might be able to expedite the entry of that person, take him out of the backlog, and make sure that person gets into Canada. I think we could be doing it right locally. When somebody comes into my office and says they want somebody to come and visit, I know the person who is doing the asking, maybe. I think it would be a lot better if that person could say he's going to guarantee that this individual will return and do what we already do in our court systems every day, particularly for the ones who got turned down, because it's very hard to get a refusal on a visa overturned, particularly by the office.
If you were to do that, then we would have a critical mass of people who could do some quality control checks to see which visa officers are refusing way too many, because we'd be able to measure them against the ones who got here in spite of what the visa officer said. If you find that certain visa officers are turning down too many who are coming and fulfilling their obligations and returning as they're supposed to, it would give us some kind of quality control. Right now we don't have that. Too often I find that visa officers are turning down people unnecessarily.