Mr. St-Cyr, under the new act, we must not accept immigration applications from skilled foreign workers if they don't fall into the 38 priority categories. That means that we can finally reduce, control the number of applications. We used to receive an infinite number of applications, but our processing capacity...
Pardon me, I'm going to continue in English.
In theory, we had an infinite number of applications that we had an obligation to process, but we had a finite number of people we could accept in a given year. Consequently, the inventory kept growing and growing. Under Bill C-50 we now have the capacity to limit the number of applications that are made, and that's why the inventory is coming down.