Thank you, Chair.
I would like to echo my NDP colleague's disappointment that the minister wasn't available for the two hours. From experience, I know that ministerial availability is a very flexible concept. I look forward to his return for the discussion of the main estimates.
Deputy, I'd like to come back to the minister's deflection of my question regarding the judicial order to redetermine the rejection of Widlene Alexis's application for temporary residency.
Given the judge's scathing criticism of the flawed bureaucratic reasoning of the officer who rejected the TRP, I'd like to ask you not about this case but about how many instances of ministerial exemption were given in the past year. We know there were 4,710 decisions made on compassionate and humanitarian grounds and on “other” grounds, which one would assume would be ministerial exemptions.
I'm just wondering how many ministerial exemptions were made by the minister's predecessor.