Agriculture committee  Thank you, Chair, for this question. I think the member explained it well. The scarcity of air connections, for example, makes it very difficult. Conversations with ministries of labour overseas—and they are operating with reduced staff—are also very complicated. I've alluded to

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. My first thought would be about the need to move towards a more digital system. We are still very dependent on paper-based information. As you can imagine, we need to have access to certain files, and that presents some pretty big challenges.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, my fellow politicians could answer that question better. So I'm going to give the floor to Ms. Campbell Jarvis or Mr. de Vlieger.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I'm going to answer the first part of the member's question, and I'll ask my colleagues to talk about future progress in this area. With respect to paperwork, we have indeed made great efforts to compress the administrative process. We've really tried to str

Agriculture committee  I apologize. I was on mute. I'll go over some rough statistics, and we can provide more defined statistics if required. The number of work permits for the month of March was indeed lower. There were approximately 3,000 fewer than for the same period in 2019. In April it was roug

Agriculture committee  Those are permits that have been confirmed, meaning those are individuals who have arrived in Canada.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I could take the question. Indeed, there is a role for IRCC overseas, working in the embassy. I will use the example of Mexico again. We're working very closely with recruiters, local recruiters and the ministry of labour. When work permits are authorized and issued,

Agriculture committee  Thank you for that interesting question. Indeed, there are some major impediments in certain countries. In Mexico, for example, where we have a big processing centre for Central America and South America, just the fact that we have to deal with the ministry of labour in Mexico,

Human Resources committee  I do not, but we'd be happy to get back to the committee with that information.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Deputy Minister Tapley. Indeed, as Deputy Minister Tapley said, according to certain categories, we have certain processing times, but we do prioritize those that need an extension. We've had a number of reorganizations within our operations sector here in Canada to r