Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to continue on the matter of the backlog and Bill C-50. At the end of my last remarks, I explained that, in Bill C-50, the chapter on immigration that was passed—which can be called the immigration reform—enables the minister to issue instructions on classes of immigrants that are to be prioritized. So people who are further back in the line will be brought to the front of the line. Obviously, if I take the application of a person who is at the end of the line and move it to the front, it will be processed sooner, but the line will remain just as long.
How do you explain why the number of pending files has declined, whereas all Bill C-50 made it possible to do was to take people from further back in the line and process their files on a priority basis?