Can you help the committee understand some other confusion around personnel? In February the minister announced that 500 new passport officers had been hired to deal with the backlog. Then, two months later, the minister admitted that not one of them was on the job. Can you help us understand where this is? How many of the 500 personnel have been hired? Where are they located? What are we to believe here?
On June 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.