I don't think it is actually the mandate of any CIC office around the world to do promotion. Actually, we asked them a couple of times to come to us to explain and so on. It's more that each province will do that. Each province tries to attract immigrants on their own--such as Ontario and Vancouver--through their own strategies. But with the present inventory, I don't think they want to try to promote anything. They want to digest what they have for the moment, so that's the situation.
That's a part of my job, to promote the program. I'm promoting Quebec and the federal program. I go overseas and work with agents. That's part of our job, and I think we're doing so well that we create the backlog, because our model.... If you talk with people from America, from Homeland Security, for example, they are jealous of our system, our requirements and the benefits we can give and so on, as compared with their own program. I think they are working on some things to compete with us, because if we receive more or less 10,000 applications a year, as investors...actually last year, I think they received less than 1,000--I think 800--applications in America. There should be ten times that. They should receive 100,000 for their country, so there is something wrong.
That's the reason why I say we have to adjust, be ready for what is coming, because our real competitor is not only Quebec and federal together. No, we have to be together to compete with America.
