Because it takes so long to get people here, we've had tremendous pressure from a wide range of employers across the country to get them the help they need. We're not training enough people in the skilled trades, for example.
Recently a skilled trades school couldn't open because it couldn't get enough skilled tradespeople to finish it. We've been under a lot of pressure to help these people keep going with their businesses, which means we've expanded the temporary foreign workers program deliberately.
This summer we'll be launching a program called the Canadian experience class. We announced this in Budget 2007. It will allow certain temporary foreign workers, as well as foreign university graduates of Canadian schools with Canadian work experience, to apply for permanent residence from within the country.
So we're tearing down the wall between the permanent and temporary streams in a deliberate effort to get more people here sooner, and get them into the jobs that need to be filled so they can succeed and so that Canada can succeed.