There have been some administrative measures that have improved the processing and the administration generally. There were also ministerial directives designed to reduce the number of job categories, which was an attempt to try to better target the workers Canada needed and to lessen the backlog. At the time of the audit, we said it was still too early to see if this was successful. Early indications were that the number of applications were not going down significantly.
On November 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.