Mr. Chair, the immigration processing streams are independent from the processing of claims for asylum seekers at the Immigration and Refugee Board. If the member is referring to the processing for eligibility of asylum claimants who have recently entered Canada prior to the IRB phase, that has been accomplished with the reallocation of resources from within the department and has not affected processing times in other streams of our immigration-related activities.
On December 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.