Minister, one of the programs that was recently announced was a program to encourage permanent residence applications from foreign students studying in Canada and temporary foreign workers. I believe it was suggested that up to 25,000 applications would be received a year and the group of applications would come from targets already announced.
Minister, am I correct in assuming that it means the overall number of places available in all the other categories is thereby reduced by 25,000?
I think the high end for the target for this coming year was going to be 265,000. It would mean the high end would really be 240,000 for people who come as economic immigrants, people who have made family reunification applications, and refugees and people needing protection? Because of this new announcement, does it mean there are actually 25,000 fewer places that are available to those kinds of applications or those kinds of applicants?