Mr. Chair, first of all, we have a mix of Canada-based staff and locally engaged staff. We find that that is really the most effective way for us to deliver the significant volumes of processing that we do—1.4 million temporary visas a year, a good portion of which are processed in our overseas offices.
It is more cost-effective to hire locally engaged staff in many cases. We have ways of managing the workflow so that locally engaged staff are doing part of the processing and, for the most part, though not in all cases, the decision-making functions stay with Canada-based officers.