Ms. Normandin, I am always open to your suggestions, but I want to point out that we have already made our system more flexible to address the labour shortage and to ensure that we meet our economic priorities.
That system enables us to issue open work permits. The system also relies on labour market impact assessments, or LMIAs, to meet the needs of a specific sector of our economy. We will continue to work toward that.
As for the processing times, this year's results have been very encouraging. In January, we processed 10% more applications than in January of the previous year. In February, we sent more than 27,000 invitations to new immigrants already in Canada who had work experience in our country, including Quebec. We will continue along that path.