We foresee establishing an electronic pool of interested individuals who meet a set of defined criteria with regard to their human capital, language skills, work experience, education, and so forth. The number of persons in the pool is not the number of people you have to process; there's no obligation to process them. Government would extend invitations to apply to the priority individuals in the pool. For example, you could extend invitations to apply to those with the highest number of points against the federal skilled worker grid, for those who have employment offers in priority occupations and things like that. But you would only extend the number of invitations to apply that you had capacity to process. Effectively, you would create a situation where you could do just-in-time processing. You could issue x number of invitations to apply per month based on the levels plan and the processing capacity so that when the applications arrive at the department they are put into processing immediately.
On November 21st, 2013. See this statement in context.