This is what I'm missing in some of the testimonies and some of the questions. Our system has changed. More than 50% of skilled workers are provincially selected. The federal level has off-loaded the heavy lifting to the province. The most expensive skilled-worker files are provincial decisions now—soft trade, soft skills. That's the right question, because at the end of the day, the regional economic needs will be met by regional selection systems provincially. We cream off the easiest files to process federally, which is why we have that circumscribed list. We're getting off light.
The answer to the question is the province, and the elephant in the room, frankly, is the province of Ontario, which has fundamentally abdicated its constitutional responsibility to answer the immigration selection system in a serious way. That's the root cause and genesis of the federal backlog and hopefully of change for the future.
No longer should the federal level take the political hit for a provincial decision to abdicate its responsibility.