The reality is that there is a systemic problem, and anyone who is denying that is not familiar with the issue. There's an average size of backlog of 40,000 cases. The average wait time over the past decade has been a year or more to get to the RPD, under Liberal governments, under Conservative governments.
There are sometimes huge spikes in claims. When Mr. Coderre was minister, they were coming from the United States. He responded through the safe third country agreement. There were spikes under our government from Mexico. We responded with visa impositions.
Sometimes governments have addressed this through an increase in resources; you're absolutely right. The previous government, for a two-year period, had a short-term injection of resources that increased the number of finalizations. And guess what happened? As soon as that was over, the backlog went back up, the processing times went back up, and there was another wave of claims.
So we can do what Bill Clinton defined as insanity—repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result—or maybe we can take a step back and say that maybe the system needs to be reformed.