Had we not begun applying the limits to new applications through ministerial instructions in 2009, I think the last estimate I saw was that the backlog in that particular program would have grown from 640,000, as of 2008, to well over a million by 2011. You could see every year that we were warehousing 100,000 to 200,000 new applications in the backlog.
If we never used that tool there would be a constant growth, moving up into the 1.5 million range just in that one program. With the backlog of 640,000, which was where it peaked, we were already looking at wait times of seven to eight years.
I will give you a general estimate that had we not used ministerial instructions, by the end of this decade we would be at about 1.5 million backlogged applications in that program, taking—I don't know—10 to 15 years to process.