Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming to this committee.
My questions are focusing on immigration investor cases.
As you have stated, in 2008 alone immigrants invested over $550 million in Canada, and probably between 2004 and 2008 the processing times for 80% of federal and Quebec investors went down. I'm interested in Beijing, which went down from between four and seven months to three months. But then, you're concerned about Hong Kong. When I look at the number for Hong Kong, it jumped between 2004 and 2008. In 2004 we had about 3,500 only, but then as we went to 2008 the number jumped to almost 12,000.
So, in Hong Kong do they process not just investor immigration files from Hong Kong itself but also from some other provinces of China? Am I right to assume that?