I appreciate that. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to come back to it.
With regard to family reunification and spousal sponsorship, I'm confident that we are going to get back to one-year wait times by this spring. In fact, the 62 new individuals who were hired in Nova Scotia will help accelerate our achievement of that goal.
That is on top of the work that we have already done in prioritizing 50,000 spousal sponsorship applications prior to the end of last year; the 55,000 COVID family travel exemptions, which we've issued to date; and—