Absolutely. By having more resources available to process these applications, the government would be able to more quickly access applicants whose skills were needed here, because it would all be done through a numbered system.
For example, if Canada needed more nurses, we could pull them out of the system and process them with the jobs available. They do that now, and it's working quite well in trying to deal with the backlog. If someone has a job waiting for them in Canada, that case is pulled out almost immediately and processed very quickly. The government is doing a fantastic job of that.
We hear so much about this backlog, and we're certainly not denying it's a very serious issue, but how many people are still interested after seven years of waiting? That's the big question. Even if it's half a million, it's still too many.