Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Madam Fraser, for another thorough report.
Just for the record, I'll note that the report goes back to 2002. I was glad Mr. Bevilacqua decided not to be partisan, because this doesn't relate to any single government. It relates to governments that go back to 2002.
I see that the departments have agreed with every one of your recommendations, which demonstrates the quality of the audit. They are working to improve, but it appears that the processes themselves are in transition. In the private sector, we used to call that “continuous improvement”. In many cases, your concern seems to be centred on a lack of information. This seems to be a primary concern, a theme of the report.
It appears that things are moving so fast that the analysis hasn't kept up with the innovations, and the people at Citizenship and Immigration Canada have been innovative. I look at pages 18 and 19 of the report, and I see that there are at least seven innovations designed to manage the inventory of the federal skilled workers category and reduce the number of applications. Do you have any insight into why these innovations weren't as successful as expected?