Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, of course.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's difficult to say, because a lot depends on what happens in the world. I'm expecting that we will have appeals, perhaps, from permanent residents who are in the Middle East and want to come back. If there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world, there are more appeals. P

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't. I think Mr. Coakeley has covered it quite well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The IAD is trying to reduce the backlog and work more efficiently, and the way we can do that.... You see, sometimes a single issue is just one legal question--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is in terms of both wait time and efficiency.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is both.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we do. We do it in hard numbers. I'm sorry; if I had known you would want this information, I'd have brought it with me. We do get the hard numbers of how many were withdrawn successfully or how many were consented to by the minister. I can say that for this fiscal year

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe that the courts are helpful in delimiting for the IAD its boundaries, its jurisdiction. It gives us guidance on the case law, it helps our jurisprudence, and it helps the way we develop and function as a quasi-judicial tribunal. I wanted to mention something else. Mr.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the ADR procedure, I would say that roughly 30% of sponsorship appeals that are filed do go through an ADR process. I'm sorry, you'll have to repeat the remaining questions because I was having trouble—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Roughly 44% of all appeals that go through ADR are successful. Success, though, in terms of the IAD, includes those consented to by the minister and those in which the appellant withdraws the appeal. I can't give you more of a breakdown than that. That's how we measure success; w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't say that the decisions made by the officials were wrong. In most cases, the decision made by the visa officer, the immigration officer, is correct, because the decision was based on the facts that were before him. The facts in front of the IAD may be quite different, b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that at least 80% of our sponsorship appeals are spouses.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I could give you a sense of the hearings. I believe that roughly 30% of the sponsorship appeals are allowed, about 40% are dismissed, and the remainder are withdrawn or abandoned. Those were probably weak appeals.