Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the minister.
The minister says that every single person who works for the visa application centre, as well as those who are subcontracted, is vetted by the government. We learned that subcontractors owned by the Beijing police are hired by the subcontractor, and they're not vetted by the federal government.
We now learn that 86% of the staff being hired by the subcontractor doing VAC services work for Canada are owned by the Chinese police. In what world would having 86% of the staff who are employed by an arm of the police and are receiving the kind of sensitive information that VACs handle be a good idea? And this on top of the fact that the chair of that company is the party secretary and the general manager is the deputy party secretary. The truth is the entire structure stinks. This is a huge conflict of interest for the safety of applicants.
The minister keeps saying that he's sure about the VACs' security, yet the entire structure is fundamentally flawed. Given what has been uncovered, is the minister still confident about this structure or will he do something about it? If he's going to give me the same answer that he has been giving to committee members in this meeting and the last meeting, he can say that he is comfortable with it so I can move on to my next question.