Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I'll start, Chair, and then maybe turn over to Madame Deschênes. We're starting with what will be a targeted group of visa-required countries. Key issues, of course, will be where we have security concerns. Basically, when people apply for a visa, they will be required to p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll get the exact number. It's pretty close to 38,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, individuals, with dependants, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it's 38,415.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would have been very close to 20,600.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The level's planned target for this year is a range, 42,000 to 45,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Provinces would all like more provincial nominee spaces.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well that, has proven to be a fairly controversial question. What happened is that as the provincial nominee program started out back in 2005 there was actually fairly limited initial take-up, so levels within our levels plan weren't really an issue when it started out, and we st

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're meeting with the provinces and the territories next week, and we're going to have a discussion about levels-planning for 2013 and further years.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had some difficulties with that program, and I'll ask Madame Deschênes to speak to that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the backlog? Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The intake through ministerial instruction one was higher than we had anticipated, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll have to check that number for you. We can provide that, but it was in excess of 100,000 applications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is always an option to increase levels. I think the big decision initially is how many people we want to admit.