Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to touch back on the emphasis you've placed, Minister, and that the department has placed on the whole aspect of biometrics and their implementation. It's come up on a number of occasions--in the original study, the first study we did here at committee, but more specifically and almost on a regular basis in the second study in terms of the report we are doing on security regarding entrants coming into Canada and obviously our border system.
You emphasized it in your presentation with respect to a secure immigration system with integrity. Even in the main estimates we can see the aspect of biometrics is highlighted clearly there.
One of the things that sometimes changes within a budget or within a cycle is the inability to move as quickly as we'd like to. Biometrics in fact is one of those. It has taken a little bit of time to move forward. I wonder if you could comment on the on-time and on-track focus of the biometrics in terms of setup. Probably a bit more specifically, are the biometrics in fact on track financially and fiscally? Obviously it's an important issue that we not only implement this on a go-forward basis, but we do so in a way that's financially sound.