Look, we live in a very different world from when we first were elected in 2015, Mr. Jowhari. The reality is that, with the volume of work we're doing at IRCC, not just in our immigration levels plan, which processes permanent residents, but also with the significant expansion of the international student program and the increased reliance on people here with a temporary status to work—and, frankly, the fact that Canada has become a major destination for visitors around the world—there's no way we would be able to meet the demands of the system.
In particular, there's a major thing that has happened between then and now. The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on the immigration system. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that when you close a border to protect public health against the spread of a virus, you can have an impact on the folks who were involved in bringing people across those borders.
What has happened is that, for a period of time, we had to stop hosting citizenship ceremonies, for example. Part of the work that was informed by McKinsey helped us to evolve the digitization of the citizenship program, and now we're producing record numbers of citizenship grants on a monthly basis.
It's just one example of the kinds of efficiencies we're starting to see now across different immigration streams. If we want to continue to grow our immigration ambition, which I believe is a good thing for Canada, we're going to need to embrace digital technologies as a government that wants to do business in the 21st century.