Mr. Chairman, we never really looked at the actual process to set the levels. We haven't audited this. There are a good number of consultations with a whole bunch of stakeholders that take place in Canada, regarding the levels. A major question is how able the country is to absorb and integrate those people.
Those levels, if I understand correctly, are tabled in Parliament. They're approved in Parliament. I'd like to go back to one question that was asked before, when you made the comparison with 2000. When we did the audit in 2000, the situation was very different from what it is now, because in 2000 we were not meeting the levels. We were behind. We said at the time the department was overtasked. We were not able to get all the people that we would like to get as a country.
The situation in 2006 is quite different. We're meeting the levels. We exceeded the levels in a whole bunch of categories in here, so I guess the whole question of processing time is linked with the levels. We said we would like to get 250,000. We're getting the 250,000. We have a number of applications in the process. So there's a question of balance between setting the level and waiting times, and that's something that probably needs to be looked at.