I've also noted on the department's website that permanent residents from Ukraine, by year, during that time of initial cuts, fell by about 45%.
I'd like to deal with this issue of a pattern of disinformation that sometimes comes with the communications coming out of the minister's office. We heard about the Peel Tamil centre.
I'm glad the minister acknowledged that there were cuts in 2006, because when I first raised it, an e-mail, which I have in my hands, went out from the minister's office stating that Wrzesnewskyj misleads Ukrainian-Canadians about this issue, and saying that since mid-2006 there had been no reductions in staffing in the visa section of the Canadian embassy.
Today you have admitted that this had occurred during 2006. My original question to you, Minister, in the House of Commons and to your parliamentary secretary, was about cuts in 2006. And in this disinformation--there's a pattern to this disinformation--it said it was since mid-2006.
Do you condone this pattern of disinformation coming out of your office?