Thank you for the question.
As I mentioned earlier, the budget for CIC is appropriation based, which is pretty fixed in terms of capacity. Usually the budget we have to process citizenship applications allows the department to process 170,000 applications per year. That was in 2010-11. It's been a bit less in the last few years.
We are able to process a bit more—and my colleague mentioned 181,000 for one year—when we have an injection of temporary funding.
The cost is a unit cost, so it's the cost of processing the application. It's not related to the volume we process, because it's a unit cost.