Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for being here with the committee today. As you are no doubt aware, in a previous session, I sat on the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. I was always concerned about the department's statistics and the information given to your partners.
Until quite recently—and even last week—the available information that your partners use dated back a number of months. I file an access to information request and received a response. That response tells me that your outside clients, that is to say the partners you consult—as it says here that you conducted a broad consultation—work on the basis of information that dates back one year. They never have the most recent figures.
Can you explain to us why your partners are treated this way? You talk about an alignment between the needs expressed by your partners, and yet the information they receive from the department is always one year old?