Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it's 20,500, and we'll probably end up at 24,000 to 25,000 in April at the rate we're going.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't say “frustration”. I expressed the facts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I meet with the minister—not often, but I do meet with the minister. We talk about my requirements and we talk about the need for appointments and reappointments. It's discussion about the state of the union within the board, and it's a good dialogue.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been eight recruitments and twelve reappointments.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Eight would have been selected from the people we qualified and twelve would have been reappointed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I do invest in the selection process, and a lot of people invest in it with me.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I reported the last time that every time there's a transition of government—or transitions—the appointment process is affected.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was longer because it was a continuous process as opposed to a campaign. When we do a campaign like we did recently, we will be able to provide names to the minister as soon as we can get them, but it will take about four months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Executive search firms will take that, and executive staffing in the federal government is six months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't want to mislead. We won't wait until the 300 have been interviewed. We will give the government people as we progress and as I qualify them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you want selection, you can have it in one day. I'm not being facetious when I say this. What I'm saying is, could you improve on what we're doing? It's subject to evaluation. We said we would evaluate it. The government said, and I agree, that we would evaluate after two years.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  After I left, we reached 19,800.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's advice to the minister. I don't have that liberty. We are sending names to the government; there's a pool.