Mr. Chairman, I think it's fair to say that the current system doesn't contain a great deal of flexibility at all. We have to process every application we receive in the order in which it's received, although there are some exceptions to that.
Given that that's the case, somebody who may have applied four years ago, thinking that he or she might have a connection with the Canadian economy, by the time the four years go by there's no real connection. The difference in the proposal the government has brought forward is that once the instructions are in place we will be able to extract from applications received those people with occupational categories who have a direct link with labour force demand. I think the other difference we will have, since we are not going to be required to process every application we receive, is we'll be able to maintain a system, and our objective is to deal with applications within one year of receipt to try to mirror what Australia and New Zealand are doing.