Yes. First of all, I praised the performance of my department in admitting all the refugees but neglected to introduce, once again, the three at the table with me. I should do that.
Catrina Tapley, Dawn Edlund, and David Manicom have been key to this operation and may be called upon to answer some of your questions today.
Yes, Kitchener has done extremely well. I'm told that in housing you're at 96%, so you're just about all the way there.
As to the impact of the Syrian refugee operation on other categories of immigration, which I think was your question, on the one hand I make no apology for the government's giving priority to Syria, because this was the worst refugee crisis the world has seen in decades. There were literally millions of people displaced. It can be seen as almost an existential crisis for the European Union, and it has created a crisis there as well as in many places around the world.
I think the fact that we stepped up as we did to put major effort and resources into this, at a time when much of the world was hesitating or even closing their doors, was the right thing to do.
Now, when you do something like that, it is going to have some implications for other things, because in focusing so much on this, you are necessarily taking some resources away from other things.
I checked out, early in my time as minister, whether this was diverting resources away from dealing with other refugees and I was told several times that no, the people working on the other refugees were still doing that. So service to them was not diminished.
That's not to say it was necessarily good, but it wasn't made worse by the Syrian effort. Along with many other challenges we have, we must improve our speed of delivery for refugees from countries other than Syria, but I don't think these other efforts were impacted negatively by the Syrian operation.