First, I just want to express how strong our government's record is in meeting our immigration goals. There's no doubt 2020 caused a disruption, but the early results are very encouraging. In January we were 10% more productive in landing permanent residents than we were from a year ago. That was pre-pandemic. As my colleague pointed out, Madam Chair, we delivered the single-largest draw ever from an economic pool of immigrants who were already in Canada. These are individuals who are helping in our response to COVID-19.
This is one of the concrete ways in which we are innovating and it is why I'm confident we are going to hit our immigration goals for 2021.