—and qualifications, which takes time. Okay.
What I think we've heard through this process and we're now seeing is the government heading in the direction of announcing changes to the temporary foreign worker program, including changing.... As I think Ms. Tassi said, permanent resident status is a solution, and as we've heard from a number of witnesses, permanent residency is what they're asking for.
If somebody, then, were applying for a temporary foreign worker permit and had gone through an LMIA, and if the government made an announcement that this were to change such that when somebody applied to be a temporary foreign worker they'd get permanent residency—and that's what we've heard announced and questioned—will that slow down the process, making it take longer to become a permanent resident, or do you see that it could be done efficiently and just as quickly to get permanent residency? Is it possible to have the proper screening, all these different aspects of screening? Can we do it properly in the same kind of short time frame that we now use for temporary foreign workers?