So it's taking that long for it to get from the mailroom to my desk to process. With the cuts to more staff, that wait will just get longer.
I'll just share a couple of anecdotes with you. When you have an application from a young person who is 16 or 17 years old and has the opportunity to represent Canada at an athletic event and needs to get a passport, but first needs to become a Canadian citizen, and you get their application after the event, it's pretty heartbreaking. When you get an application from someone who wants to represent Canada in the Canadian Forces—and I know the war in Afghanistan is not a popular thing—but can't become a member of the Forces because they're not Canadian and are waiting over a year for us to let them know if they have sent us all the information required, that's pretty heartbreaking as well.