Thank you, Dr. Passey, for that information.
I'd like to share with the committee and witnesses today that we had staff here last week talking about the wait times and the backlog. They indicated that we moved the backlog in the last nine months from 23,000 to 15,000. I realize there are probably fewer applications due to COVID and whatnot, but we're seeing very big progress on that front because of the 350 new hires on top of the 148 we had prior to that.
Mr. May, am I going to get shut down on a question?