The reason for including these amendments in the budget implementation legislation is basically to accelerate the employability of immigrants. You are giving yourself the discretionary power to act in response to Canada's needs, in particular, since you have just said that the changes will not apply to Quebec.
There are currently some 50 positions open on the Immigration and Refugee Board. This high vacancy rate has a huge impact on efforts to try to bring immigrants in faster and assess them.
Why have you appointed only 27 board members since February 2006? Have you created a problem by not speeding up that process? Everyone agrees that it is a problem. There is a tremendous backlog, but you did not take appropriate action upstream to prevent the problem.