I think it's been very helpful to have an additional tool to be able to manage intake at the outset. As we find our feet as a department with subsequent iterations of ministerial instruction--so trying the occupational filter did help in the first instance, although we did receive more under MI-1 than we had anticipated--moving to MI-2 with the hard numerical caps further helped us with managing intake. And then refining the hard number for the numerical cap with MI-3 is going to allow us to churn through the MI-1 and return to the pre-C-50 backlog sooner than might have otherwise been the case.
On October 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.