Thank you to the member.
I view this issue to be related to the question we received earlier. I agree with the prior member that it is not a problem in and of itself that MPs want to reach out to the minister's office. That is normal and that's a necessary part of our system.
It is a function of another problem caused by the closure of the border to protect the public from the spread of COVID-19, which caused us to pivot our strategy to resettle more people who were already in Canada, rather than people who were in third countries. That built up the number of cases of people who wanted to come. At the same time, local offices around the world were sometimes shut down as a result of local public health measures. We've also seen Canada become the world's destination of choice and the number of applications increased. All of this has put pressure on the system, including on the issues of PR cards, because we have a finite number of resources at a given point in time to allocate in certain places.
Now, to your question on the the economic and fiscal update, the $85 million I referred to in my opening remarks specifically includes funding that's going to go to reduce the inventories for PR card wait times.
Mr. Mills is on the line with us.
Dan, if you have the timelines that we expect to get back to a better service standard, would you be willing to share that with the committee?