Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd be happy to provide that information. As I noted, we do expect to meet our commitment of processing 80% of the existing inventory by December 2018, which should take care of the vast majority of these cases, but certainly there are some cases that are more complicated than o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When the 10-year passport was introduced, it was recognized that, in the first five years of that 10-year passport, the passport program would accrue surpluses, but that, in the last five years of those 10 years, as people had 10-year passports and therefore, the amount of renewa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  While we separate out some of our budget lines that way, our staff, again, tend to be multi-faceted, so they process different things at different times of the year depending on volume and that sort of thing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would be happy to provide that information. I don't have it at my fingertips.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have the exact breakdown at my fingertips. I'd be happy to provide that afterwards. Again, our staff, particularly overseas—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By way of comparison, in the business line of immigrant and refugee selection and integration, our planned full-time equivalence for 2018-19 is 2,701. That is for immigrant and refugee selection and integration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —our relationships with these organizations are very useful to us. We—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —get from them important analytical information about other trends in the world that might affect our programs and about what other countries are doing. They engage in conversation and discussion with other countries that bring people together on these issues globally.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We obviously need to look at the overall trends in the asylum claims, what they're expected to be going forward, the ability to hire and train, and how quickly all of that can happen, so there are a number of factors that need to be considered, in addition to the overall budget d

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The inventory for PSR cases at the moment is about 43,252 persons, which includes 15,884 groups of five and community sponsors.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are working very hard to reduce the backlog. The multi-year immigration levels plan has provided for 57,000 privately sponsored refugees over the next three years. That will enable us to reduce the backlog and lower processing times to 12 months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to provide that information. That is a projection that I do not have with me at the moment, but we are planning to welcome 18,000 privately sponsored refugees this year and 19,000 next year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  While we reallocated a modest number of staff last year in order to assist us with the increased volume of asylum claims, this year we did receive funding in the budget that allows us to backfill those positions. We do not foresee any impact on other lines of business.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll let Mike MacDonald answer that.