Mr. Chair, I'll do my best. I'll just start by saying that we only looked at the federal skilled worker program. We did not look at the family program. That might be something the office would want to consider looking at in the future. So I really can't comment on that.
On the question of the backlog, we used the numbers that the department itself uses to track its processing. I'd like to be clear, because this is an issue that concerns me. The backlog that we mentioned—the reduction of 29%—is the backlog that was created under the 318 job categories, before the ministerial directives. That's a backlog that has been reduced, because in fact while the process was being changed, there was no processing of new applications under the 38.