I'd like to just follow up my earlier questions.
The information that came through access to information as reported on the CBC about the number of applicants who are already in the queue—about 140,000—and the estimates being made that a parent could wait about 13 years for a visa to Canada.... I want to ask you how you rationalize that. It seems to me to be a gross violation of the priority of family reunification, so I'd like to ask you that.
Also, you mentioned earlier that funding isn't given forever. But there is an issue of transition. I know, for example, that an agency such as the Afghan Association in Toronto were actually encouraged by the department to take a long-term lease. Their funding has been completely cut, so now they have a $300,000 debt. We're talking about a volunteer board.
I think it's very unfair that they should have to shoulder the department's bad planning on this, so I'd like to ask whether or not your department will be paying outstanding debts incurred, through the funding cuts, based on information that they received that they should be taking out long-term leases.
The third question I want to ask you is on the head tax on Chinese workers. Your government made an official apology, and that was very important. As we know, it was based on the head-tax payer and spouses. I think you're probably aware that there's still an ongoing issue about dependants. It's still a very active movement.
I want to ask you whether you consider that matter to be closed and that there will be nothing further done on it, or whether you consider that there is still room, and some work to be done, in addressing the dependants and subsequent generations.