Far be it from me as an immigration lawyer to say that the rules should be simpler. But I think the answer is not necessarily how complicated it is; it's how applications are processed and the transparency associated with those applications. This new system, which came in under IRPA, was designed to take out the discretion in the system. It was essentially a fill-in-the-blanks system in which you put in the number, and at the end of the day, if you passed—if you got more than this number of points—you were in, and with less you were not. That clearly has not worked.
On April 3rd, 2008. See this statement in context.