Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to go back and get from Mr. Fadden his response to Mr. St-Cyr's comments.
One of the foundations that Mr. St-Cyr builds his case on is the inadequate success rate of our current system. It would seem to me that the success rate, quite frankly, has nothing to do with whether a process is working or not working. Some would argue that the less success we have, the better a particular system is working. Some argue that the more successful the system is and the higher the percentage of acceptance, the better the system is. This is not, as I understand it, why this....
The whole process that we have put in place as a federal government does not in any way, shape, or form, in any piece of the legislation that pertains to it, or any of the regulations, speak to some sort of informal or formal success rate of the applicants being a reason or what would justify an additional appeal mechanism for our system.
I would like to get your comments on that, just to really speak to that in itself as to where the ministry determines whether it's been successful or not.
And second, as a government we obviously are going to be bringing changes forward in fact to address some of the issues Mr. St-Cyr has brought forward. Perhaps you could indicate, or at least reinforce, that we realize there are issues within the system itself that we do want to change to make this process a much stronger and more formidable one.