I have communicated with both the assistant deputy minister and with Mrs. Heidi Smith on this issue, and I offered my apologies to them in writing.
The frustration, however, does stay. I know where my colleague is going, in trying to deviate, but the length of time it takes to reunite families is the frustration we hear. Reuniting spouses from parts of Africa has risen as much as 92.3% since 2006. From the Caribbean it's risen as much as 75%. To reunite children from Africa has gone up as much as 73.68% since 2006, and from the Caribbean as much as 114.28%. The frustration we face on an everyday basis sometimes takes the best of us. I think it took the best of me, and I made a wrong comment. For that I apologized in this committee, as well as in writing, to the two members and the clerk.