We have been processing these since 2004. There was a backlog that we have begun to deal with. Close to 18,000 licences have been issued—17,807 as of November 25 were issued to nearly 1,000 different companies. The backlog is steadily going down. Our processes are improving--from issuing 5,000 in December of 2007 to 10,000 in November of 2008 to close to 18,000 today. The rate of refusal is also decreasing.
This is a new area of business for the government. There were a lot of businesses at the start that needed to be processed, and I think we have gotten better at processing. We are dealing with the backlog.