Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all of the witnesses for your presentations.
First off, it is important to know that we're all in agreement at this committee, I think, that the IRB is doing a good job on the whole and that it is a valuable and effective system.
That said, I don't mean to say that there isn't room for improvement. Many of the problems the IRB is faced with have to do with resources, or more specifically the lack thereof. For example, even in this budget the IRB was allocated an additional $74 million. This is for two years. With this, they only process 18,000 cases per year, at a time when we have more than 40,000 cases in the backlog, with an accumulation of an additional 2,100 cases per month. It thus doesn't even deal with half of the backlog that is there. That is the reality.
That said, I'd like to get on to the issue at hand. First I'd like to get into the complaints process issue.
Mr. Rehaag, if you don't have this at this moment but can present it to the committee, I think it would be valuable and give us a glimpse into the situation: from year to year, in the data available to you, how many of the cases are found to be not credible and are denied on that basis? How many of those cases are of groups from the LGBTQI2 community, and what is the country of origin breakdown? I think that will give us a glimpse into the reality of some of the issues that my other colleagues mentioned.
I would love to see in that data as well how many of the cases that were rejected ultimately went to Federal Court and were overturned. That will also give us a sense of the lay of the land, in terms of the competence and the level of work being done. If we can have year-to-year comparisons, that knowledge would be tremendous.
I know it's a lot of work. It's as though you're a research team for us; I deeply appreciate that.
I wonder whether I can get a quick comment on the record with respect to this request.