I'm afraid that's the end of your time.
I just want to clarify to the committee what I said about the request for information. This committee does have a reputation, a good reputation, for being one of the most demanding with respect to officials' questions, and that's very appropriate.
With respect to this study, the department has responded with 26 answers to questions raised by committee members. I believe a couple may still be in translation, and a couple were combined. However, there are no outstanding questions with respect to our study on medical inadmissibility.
We thank the officials. We know that places a burden on them.
With respect to the motion Ms. Rempel referred to, that had to do with our study on the irregular border crossings, and there remains one outstanding request. That request deals with the request of the provinces and territories to IRCC—there are requests outstanding from other departments—to get information on costs from the provinces engaged in this, and the department is awaiting information from the provinces on that one. So there is an outstanding IRCC request on the other study. However, we do have requests from other departments that may not be as used to our requests as IRCC is.
We thank you for your diligence in getting those answers to us.
I do want to mention, as well, because we have asked about the provinces and territories, that we have also as a committee asked the provinces and territories to weigh in on our study on this, and we have approached the 13 governments. All of them declined to appear before our committee. They were then asked if they'd like to submit written submissions. Two have responded, Nunavut and Saskatchewan, and Saskatchewan's answer is in translation now. Nunavut's was a very brief letter. That's where we are with those requests in our due diligence in attempting to get the provinces' opinions on that.
I think I've clarified that. When I said most of the stuff is in, I mean all of it's in with respect to this study, and we're awaiting one thing on the irregular border crossings.
This gives me a chance to again thank Ms. Edlund in particular but also all of the officials for their work on behalf of the Parliament of Canada, for their accountability to us, and for being effective in doing that.
Thank you.
Mr. Sarai and Mr. Whalen, I believe, are next.