Okay.
Moving on, another of the mandate letter assignments for the minister is “to advance reforms and investments in the capacity of the asylum system to ensure it is efficient while meeting...obligations”. With regard to support for cities and provincial governments and regional governments currently on the hook for many tens of millions of dollars for asylum claimant reports, and given this record 80,000-plus backlog of claimants processing, again the minister deflected his answer.
But did your department—did you—brief the minister on our previous Conservative government's express treatment: the 45-day turnaround for obviously unworthy asylum claims and the reduction to one single appeal?