Fundamentally, this is what the legislation will do, assuming that Parliament accepts it. For applications received after February 27, the minister will be able to tell the department which particular applications or category of applications we have to process first. That's a capacity we do not have now. She would be able to tell us, for example, that the country needs more sheet workers or more doctors, and they would be pulled out of the system and dealt with first.
The other major change being proposed in the legislation is that we would no longer be required to deal with all the applications. So something of the order of a yearly processing period would be set up, and we would make sure that as people came through the year, we would capture out of this one-year period those who reflect the priorities the minister sets. If by the end of the year or near the end of the year they haven't done that, their applications would be returned.