In terms of immigrating to other countries, no, we're not able to track that information with partners like Australia and New Zealand. We do know that when we implemented ministerial instructions we wrote to all the applicants who were in the backlog at the time and offered to refund their processing fees if they chose to withdraw their application and reapply under ministerial instructions. The take-up was very low, in the hundreds, out of the 640,000. Very few people actually took up the offer, I assume because they felt that with the obligation to process their application we would get to them at some point and that Canada offered them opportunities they wanted to exploit.
On October 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.