I'll be quick.
On top of the priorities given to you by the Prime Minister is one to develop a plan to address the ballooning processing times for citizenship. As you know, hundreds and perhaps thousands in my riding have been waiting years in queues for their applications to be processed.
We have just learned from the Treasury Board and the parliamentary budget officer that previous Conservative governments made cuts to many of the departmental programs that dealt with applications. Are you able to tell this committee what the effects of those cuts by stealth have been on applications of spouses, parents, and live-in caregivers?