Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Technology's great when it works, and sometimes the old stuff works better than the new, so here we are.
Ms. Jardine, thank you very much for being with us. I trust you're settling in to your new role.
One of the things you asked us to do in your opening remarks—and, I think, once since—was to ask the department for information with respect to those waiting for a decision on their initial applications, to get a look at those numbers.
Indeed, it isn't a problem for the committee to do that, and I take your point that we should be interested in that, but if this is something that merits remarks in your opening statement and is something you've reinforced, I question why you haven't done so. I had a look at your mandate. It appears that it would be within your mandate to review existing and systemic issues.
Number one, I would ask why you haven't asked the department for these numbers, to enable you to dive deeper into it. Two, could you comment generally on the level of co-operation and the level of information flow that you have with the department? I wonder whether this could be indicative of a bigger problem.