It is difficult to tell how many people will need passports, because those who apply for passports are people who want to travel. Quite a few people will never want to have a passport, because they are not interested in travelling. Our work is typically quite unpredictable.
Nonetheless, according to current observations, about 70% of people in Canada's big cities have passports. This applies to very large cities. We can also see that in the eastern part of Canada, there is a lower proportion of passport-carrying citizens. This means that the volume of passport applications in the east of Canada is currently on the rise.
Mr. Desnoyers, let me tell you about the passport clinics, how they work and how we make them available. First, a passport clinic, as far as we are concerned, consists in the delegation of a certain number of our employees, according to the type of municipality. Sometimes we can send two persons or five persons who stay there for a certain number of days. They study people's passport applications, they answer questions, they check the information in the applications for accuracy and they make a report of all the passport applications.
In some border cities, someone may suddenly need a passport. We do a follow-up and when we see that there is a high level of demand, we send in the passport clinics. Thus, we collaborate a great deal with municipalities. Members of Parliament also help us to spot the centres that really need help. In some cases—for instance, in the Quebec-Montreal corridor—we will be setting up several clinics in order to meet the demand.
I do not know if I have answered your question.