There are two parts to that answer. First, our objective is not to get rid of the backlog. Getting rid of the backlog is a means to achieving our objective of getting more immigrants here faster. We want to get families reunited faster. That's part of our mandate under IRPA, and that's why in many of the classes under family class we are doing the processing up to 40% faster.
On May 13th, 2008. See this statement in context.