Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Minister, I would like to ask a few questions regarding the immigrant investor program. I have already drawn your attention, among others matters, to the situation in Quebec which has its own immigrant investor program. There are concerns regarding the processing times. Once the selection has been made by Quebec and once those immigrant investors have invested $400,000, they get an answer after a relatively stable wait time. But down the line, when their application is sent to Ottawa for processing of the health and security aspects, it seems that the wait time becomes extremely long for checks that should in most cases be rather simple, and those delays vary widely depending on which office in the world deals with the file.
I would like to know what the situation is in terms of processing times of applications sent by Quebec. How do they compare to those that are dealt with under the federal investor program?