Minister, you've mentioned a number of judges by name, so it seems quite clear that you are familiar with the situation, yet you're saying there is a process. Well, there was also an opportunity to continue with existing judges.
You know, if you're intimately aware of the responsibilities of your office, that one of those responsibilities is to appoint judges so that thousands of these Canadians-in-waiting do not get frustrated. This is a huge life decision. They've made it and they've passed all the requirements. All they were waiting for was the ceremony, yet your office has not made that decision.
Now, I see you're trying to push the responsibility onto process once again, but this isn't a complicated process. Judges have stated that they were willing to continue in their positions, even on a monthly basis, to make sure that we wouldn't end up with a backlog of tens of thousands of people.
The same situation actually happened in my part of the country, in Etobicoke. For seven months there wasn't a judge available. Once again, the judge was willing to continue in her capacity. Thousands of Canadians-in-waiting were denied a ceremony to confirm their citizenship. In this particular case, I don't think you can shift responsibility. Who is responsible?