Over the course of the last five to six years we've seen what I would term an explosion of demand on the provincial nominee program. Manitoba was an early participant, and I think that is demonstrated and manifested in the absolute numbers of nominees each year, 5,000 for that province.
Other provinces have moved quite aggressively over the last number of years to increase their numbers as well. Historically, if you look at the proportion of skilled workers who have come to Canada between the federal skilled worker program and the PNP, the ratio, you will see, has gone from approximately 95% to 5% to a space where it's probably closer now to 60:40, which means that the levels plan has stayed relatively constant with admissions of 240,000 to 265,000. We have accommodated that growth in the provincial nominee program by reducing the number of federal skilled workers who were processed every year under the levels plan.
We've seen admissions grow from the hundreds to a point where we would expect in 2011 close to 40,000 provincial nominees arriving in Canada.