One of the key differences you've left out in your analysis, Mr. Kmiec, is the fact that there are significantly more people coming to Canada.
Look at the massive increase in the number of people applying for study permits each year. We're now pushing in excess of half a million. We've seen a 30% increase this year over the record the year before, and that was a 30% increase over the record previously. When it comes to permanent residency, the year before we formed government there were about 240,000 new permanent residents admitted, and now we're coming up on 500,000 by 2025. So the number of cases in the system has certainly grown.
What we're trying to do is get back to a level where people can predictably know how long it's going to take for their applications to be processed. Very soon we're going to be there across our different lines of business as a result of the investments we have made and hopefully—if the committee adopts these supplementary estimates (B)—the investments we will continue to make.