If we look at the practicalities of how many people the system is catching, it's 900 applicants per year, or 0.2% of all the people who are applying to Canada. We've heard about all the problems with the system, and the amount of resources the government is going to have to sink into making the system workable. If the goal is cost savings for the government, it just doesn't make sense to keep this program in place.
On November 20th, 2017. See this statement in context.