Thank you.
Clearly we could not keep going with a status quo system that has created all kinds of backlogs and problems. We know because we did the backlog study. Over one million people are waiting in the backlog. We look at the refugees and we see people clogging up the refugee system, who, quite frankly, are being identified as not legitimate refugees and are then being returned. Applicants—people from democratically elected European countries, who have no legitimate reason for claiming refugee status—are trying to come through a faster channel, if you will, into Canada. What does that do? It clogs things up the system and keeps legitimate people from having an opportunity to come here, people who are really in danger of some sort of persecution in their country of origin.
Perhaps you can elaborate for us, Minister, on what the estimated total processing time for a refugee claim is today.