Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In closing, I would like to speak to quality control of the process. You made a number of recommendations in this regard, both in 2000 and in 2006, but there does not seem to have been any follow-up. There is no framework to ensure service quality and especially—and I know this is a concern to many of us—fair processing of the applications.
When the applications are reviewed by our officers abroad, the criteria applied and the responses given should be relatively similar to those used everywhere else. It seems to me that the computerization of this process would be an asset, because the evaluation of the files using this method would be fairer and less subjective than on paper. In the latter case, the quality of the presentation, the paper or the documents is always a factor.