Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all the officials for all of your hard work over the last number of weeks and months. I really appreciate you being here again for the third time in the last number of weeks.
I have a number of questions today for you about the parents and grandparents program. The committee has heard several expert witnesses and their feedback on this lottery. There are a lot of different opinions of how it could be changed.
I'm wondering if the department has the technological capacity to create a weighted grandparents and parents lottery system or otherwise—we'll use the lottery as an example—that can consider if people have applied three, four or five times.
Right now we're seeing that new applicants are being treated the same as those who have been hoping to get their parents into the country for years. I'm just wondering if you have the capacity to do that.