Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I want to thank the Auditor General for conducting this audit.
Many people have raised questions about the overwhelming of the refugee system. Many of those questioners have been accused by the minister of being motivated by xenophobia, insinuations of motivation perhaps even by racism, rather than by parliamentarians actually doing their job to understand what the government is doing and whether it has the resources to cope with the problem, whether it's making the right choices to be able to deal with the problem.
I'm pleased that we can have a proper discussion about how the system is working and where its failings are, and there are, clearly, many failings in the system, as identified in this report. I thank you, Mr. Ricard, for doing so.
I heard the opening statements from both Ms. MacDonald and Mr. Wex. Actually, I think it was Mr. Wex's comments that seemed to contradict the finding in the report. It says that we are on track to having up to a five-year delay by 2024, yet in one of the opening statements, I noted that no, we are in fact going the other way, and that we are down under two years and continuing to shrink.
I've heard that you accept the findings of the Auditor General, but the Auditor General says that we are headed toward five-year delays within five years, so please, I'd like this point addressed.