I crunched some numbers a couple of months ago, and they certainly haven't been challenged by either the parliamentary secretary in the House or the minister herself. Those numbers showed that between 2005 and 2006 there was a 20.67% increase overall in the amount of time it took somebody to come to Canada throughout the system. In 2007 it was 7.69%. In 2005 there were 260,000-plus, and in 2007 there were 235,000 to 240,000--a 10% decrease. The minister is going around saying we'd like to let more people in, and we've got to deal with the backlog, etc. Yet they're taking longer to process and allowing fewer people in.
Couldn't one of the ways to resolve the backlog be to increase the number of people coming into Canada?