Thank you.
We all know, as you've so eloquently canvassed, that we have a backlog of over one million applications. Wait times can be described as appalling. I think it's important to note that both backlogs and wait times have increased under your watch. Family sponsorships take years, sometimes more than a decade. Inland spousal applications are not even opened for one year. A woman gave birth to a baby in a hotel in Vancouver recently because CIC could not even write a simple letter confirming that her application had been received.
Your department has said that these cases slipped between the cracks. We say, from the official opposition side, that these cases are much more pervasive than that. Yet we see in the estimates that you're proposing a $27 million cut to internal services. How can Canadians have faith, Minister, that more people will not slip through the cracks if you're cutting $27 million to internal services?