It's a challenging question for a public servant to answer.
Specifically, I can respond that it is correct that the overall settlement funding envelope did increase very dramatically from about $200 million to $600 million between 2005 and 2006. That's not counting the settlement funds provided to Quebec, which bring the total up to about $900 million.
I could confirm that had we not taken steps to begin to manage application intake, the application backlogs, which were approaching a million individuals, would have continued to grow, and by this time would have been much higher than that. Those are factual answers I can provide.
I'd also note that the levels plans for the last six years have seen a focus on economic immigration and a focus on those parts of the labour market that are at most need. In managing intake in the federal skilled-worker program, for example, we also prioritized certain occupations that are in most demand in the economy at this time.