I'd be naive if I told you that doesn't happen or people might not do that. My own experience is that often when that is said there is really no link to anybody who can make a decision or make it faster. There is a story created of a perceived link to somebody.
Certainly when we talk about Canada-based officers overseas, they make decisions, and so on, but part of their work also is to manage the risk in that environment. So part of the work they need to do is quality assurance on decision-making. They put in place systems in which sometimes people say there is no flexibility, but sometimes having no flexibility in the system ensures that nobody can skip a line and take money, and so on.
We certainly have systems in place. We do regular audits throughout our program where independent auditors come in and verify whether systems are in place that work. We want to continue to improve the quality assurance we do, not only on negative decisions but on the positive decisions, to make sure that people are entitled to get what they do.
It is a variety of things. We certainly work with the Department of Foreign Affairs in terms of their trade officers in some missions where the risk is very high. There are also places where we have security officers and we work with them. All our locally engaged staff is security-cleared, and there are local checks made that are updated periodically.