The number of individuals applying inland for spousal applications has almost doubled since 2010, and this is part of the issue we're trying to deal with.
Under the CIC's levels plan, we give about 48,000 spaces for spouses, partners, and children. The majority of that is from overseas, because we do try to bring people from overseas first. Because of the complete separation, we see greater needs there.
Nevertheless, the numbers in Canada have gone up to over 9,000 in the last couple of years, so we are trying to increase the space for more of those applications to be landed.
We also continue to look at ways that we can try to ease some of these very real difficulties while people are waiting for landing in Canada.