Thank you.
I want to touch on the issue of the scope of the problem in terms of the backlog. In the departmental plan, Minister Fraser mentioned that the plan is for between 360,000 and 445,000 new permanent residents for 2022. However, if you look at the same departmental plan, on page 22, it shows that every year we have failed to achieve our targets by 100,000-plus people. They did kick in a bit of extra money for that, but that was to deal with the backlogs that are going to be created, not the existing one.
I asked the minister about this, and of course he didn't deny these because they're facts, but he said it's normal to have hundreds of thousands of people.... His quote was, “I hesitate to describe as a backlog, because it's normal to have an inventory of cases.”
Mr. Hyndman, from your perspective, working on the ground with people, do we have a normal inventory of cases, at two million? Is the government looking at these as cases and not people? Are we trying to do too much? What's going on here?