Thank you to our officials.
I have a few questions. I'm going to jump around a little and change topics.
My first question is about the minister's comments when he spoke of the reforms to the Citizenship Act and the decades of neglect by previous governments. Then in answer to a question about the current government, he said that the Conservatives have only been in government for the last eight years.
I'm wondering if you can give us statistics on the wait times for citizenship applications over the last eight years, and also on the wait times on the residency questionnaire. I have many, many, many people contacting me directly about their residency questionnaire wait times and their wait times in general for citizenship. They've been permanent residents for many years and want to be Canadians, and they are stuck in the queue, waiting.