Yes. It's a regional processing centre here in Atlantic Canada, based out of Saint John, New Brunswick. You send in an application, and right now, you don't know who is going to be reviewing that application. It might be a new person who was just trained.
I would recommend that individuals within that processing centre be specialized in areas of the industry, so that the questions asked are not the same ones on every application, time after time. We've been using the program since 2004. My answers to the questions are the same every time we apply.
There are individuals who have repeatedly reviewed my applications and processed them in a very expeditious manner, and there are those who cause extra questions to be answered, which have been answered previously.
Once it is approved, with the time it now takes to get a name assigned to it, we apply for a blanket 25 positions. We don't know the names at the time of application, but we determine those over time. It should not take another three or four weeks to have the name put on the LMIA. It should be a quick turnaround.
I have 10 applications that have been sitting in the hopper now for the past two and a half weeks. I still don't have them to send to the individuals, some of whom are here in Canada ready to start.