Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I neglected in my last round to add our concerns for the wounded RCMP member in Kamloops. I understand he's a 13-year veteran and father of two, and we all hope for a speedy and complete recovery.
I'm going to ask my question to Mr. Cenaiko from the Parole Board of Canada. We had a change to recast pardons as record suspensions. We had an increase in the fees from $150 to $631. These are for people who have finished their sentences, are trying to get back into employment, and are trying to get their lives back together having paid the penalties they were ascribed. I have two questions.
One is that last year we were seeing a drop in applications for record suspensions that was attributed by many people to the increase in the fee to $631, which is something very tough for someone who needs the record suspension to get a job. The second is that last year we had a backlog of some 15,000 applications. I want to know if you had enough resources to make a dent in that backlog.