Thank you for the question.
In fact, the word “backlog” has come up in the past, and the issue of 180 days relates to the actual time taken for samples to be analyzed by the regional laboratories, the six RCMP labs, the Centre of Forensic Sciences, and the Montreal lab, all of which are backed up and take time to process samples from crime scenes. The data bank actually has no backlog. It never has had a backlog, and in fact every case goes through the data bank in less than a week. So there are two separate issues here, sir.