Yes, I'm happy to. There's probably nothing quite so contested as the definition of what is actually “rural” in Canada. We used a definition that we thought promoted the goals of the pilot and also recognized some of the challenges that certain communities in Canada face in attracting and retaining immigrants.
There were two factors that we used. One was geographic: being a certain distance away from a major urban centre. Really, that was driven by the desire, the objective, of ensuring that bedroom communities or suburbs of larger centres were not included in the scope of the pilot, but just the communities that are eligible. There's also population size.
The third one that we factored in was the remoteness index. This is a measurement that Statistics Canada uses to measure the remoteness of communities. For example, there are some northern Ontario communities that are larger in population size, but are quite remote from our traditional immigrant-receiving urban centres. They were also considered eligible for this pilot.