Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, panel, for being here.
I want to pick up from where my colleague left off.
One of the concerns is that processing on medical admissibility happens at the stage when we are ready to process the application, so someone would have filed an application in 2010, and six or seven years later, they are going to be assessed. We have the family essentially waiting for upwards of five or seven years to get a decision from the department with respect to admissibility. Then they go through the process, which could drag on, and potentially eight, nine, or 10 years later, they find out they're not admissible to Canada.
I think the fact that somebody is waiting for 10 years and at the end isn't allowed to come here is highly problematic. How do we make sure this kind of assessment happens ahead of time so that the family doesn't have to wait that long?