I think one of the things you've heard from the industry here is the incredible speed at which businesses like that work. When businesses in the IT sector need people with specialized coding skills, they need them now, they don't need them two years from now or seven years from now.
This corresponds to what I've been saying about our fundamental reforms to Canada's immigration system: we need to move from a slow and rigid system in which people were typically waiting for seven or eight years on their applications for permanent residency as economic immigrants to a system that is fast, flexible, and labour market responsive. As much as possible, we want to be able to bring qualified economic immigrants into Canada within a matter of months rather than several years, which was the case in the past. We're now on the cusp of eliminating the huge old backlog in the skilled worker program. A year from how we will have what's called a “working inventory”, and thereafter we will be able to bring in people very quickly. That's already the case for people with pre-arranged employment.
This means we want to encourage employers, as in this industry, not just to look to temporary work permits as a solution to their labour market need, but to think long term a little about perhaps trying to attract those people to stay through permanent residency. Our new and faster immigration system makes that a real possibility, when it wasn't in the past.