Minister, there was an Order Paper question response submitted to my colleague from Edmonton Manning that showed your department is meeting its service standards only 46% of the time. In fact, in the programs that are the most important to the economy, like federal skilled worker program and the skilled trades program, it's only 16% of the time. There's another program, the one that takes temporary residents, with temporary permits, and then transitions them to permanent residency. The numbers are equally abysmal.
You're telling me that everything is going really well, but your own department's numbers, updated as of September of this year, are not getting any better. You're in the very low double digits for processing applications on time.
Why should I believe anything you say?