Just to clarify, Mr. Chair—and Madam Deschênes may have views as well—the pre-Bill C-50 backlog, those people who applied before February 2008, is the backlog that was halved from 640,000 to about 315,000.
Since that time, with ministerial instructions we've received roughly another 140,000 under MI-1 and a few thousand under MI-2 that we're still working through.
But when we look at the total skilled worker backlogs now—so pre-Bill C-50, plus MI-1, and MI-2—we're in the world of about 450,000 to 460,000. We feel that at current rates, with the levels planned at 240,000 to 265,000, we'll be able to eliminate all those applications and all backlogs by about 2017.