It's important to look at that difference. In the mid-1990s there was a lot of debate about why this had changed. Some would say that it was a reaction to the recession that happened at the beginning of the 1990s and some concern that they hadn't lowered the rate of immigration at that time, and also I think partly just preconceptions about what.... Immigration was changing more and more to be people from the racialized south, and there was a fear that Canada would not be able to integrate people who were seen as so different from the average Canadian. So by having high educational criteria, people maybe felt that they would be more like Canadians, although if you look at our profile, it's not the case.
I don't think there was a really good economic or sound social planning reason behind it, other than to say that we want the cream of the crop, without it really fitting the Canadian social network.