Over the course of the last year, we have closed 10 visa offices abroad. There were no foreign service officers who were cut as a result, but there were a number of other positions cut in the process. In addition, about 233 locally engaged staff positions were cut.
That's being offset by new ways of processing applications and centralization of a lot of work. Some of the work is now being done now in Ottawa that had previously been done overseas. Because of the new electronic tools, which the minister made reference to earlier, there are new opportunities. No longer are we restricted by where the people and the paper are. Because of these new tools, we are able to move work around our international network and indeed our domestic network, so that we can move the work to where there is a capacity to deal with it.