The Treasury Board Secretariat's website doesn't have any of that information, which is why I am asking for it. It does a pretty good job of providing them in a digital format so you can compare to previous years.
The minister talked a lot about how all these extra people and all this extra money are going to improve processing times. The problem is that the same departmental plan calls for a reduction of 1,000 FTEs, and an almost $1-billion reduction in spending over the next two years. That's part of the planned spending, the long-term trend for this department.
How can you square the fact that the department is being staffed up and budgeted up in order to reduce the backlog but the backlog has not gotten a lot shorter, while there is also a very high expectation of large volumes to increase into the future? The annual report on immigration calls for large volumes of applications, while resources are expected to be reduced, according to what the minister and the department have basically put forward to the Treasury Board.