Peter Kent at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On February 27th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2020 / 10:25 a.m.

Conservative

Peter Kent Conservative Thornhill, ON

Okay.

With regard to the increasing backlog of asylum claims, the divergence since about April last year shows that processing is dropping rather significantly and sharply, while the number of asylum claimants is actually increasing at a steady pace. It would seem that the only way to reduce this huge backlog—over 80,000 in the fall of 2019—would be to increase processing and processing times. Is that something that the department is attempting to correct?

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