Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for being here today.
This topic is certainly of interest to all Canadians. In my riding especially, whenever I mention the fact that there are all these outstanding specific claims, they find it hard to believe.
I think I heard you say that there are 800 or more of these claims. Can you give me a bit of a timeline as to how we could have possibly gotten into a backlog of that magnitude? Has this grown very rapidly in the last year or two, or is this something that's been accumulating for the long term?
I'd be interested to know if we have a record on that.