75,000 parents and grandparents. That's a higher rate than ever before in Canadian history.
We're also proud of the fact that a very large backlog that would be on the way to being 200,000 to 250,000 for parents and grandparents is now down to 86,000. At the end of last year we took in 5,000 new applications. That puts it around 90,000.
We're taking in 20,000 parents and grandparents this year. That translates into a period, Mr. Sandhu, by simple math that is much less than eight or nine years. That actually—when you take into account abandoned applications and inadmissible applications—takes it down to around four years. That's a huge improvement on the mess that the Liberals left us.