Thank you very much, Mr. Dhaliwal.
I appreciate the question. This is important. I know that there is an enormous community of interest in watching this issue. It is my intention to do what I can to allow people to stay by extending postgraduate work permits or some proxy that will have the same result and that may be as effective.
One of the challenges we're dealing with is a result of the pivot towards resettling people who were here temporarily during the pandemic as permanent residents. It hampered our ability to use the federal skilled workers program, to a certain degree. I am very focused on the need to do whatever we can to address the labour shortage. There are significant numbers of people who are here now. I want to create an opportunity for them to stay and to continue to work, and it's extremely important that we do this.
I don't have a specific date for you. We're working as quickly as we can. We have to finalize a bit of policy work before we can roll out the kinds of changes I'm talking about, but our goal is to allow those who are here working to stay and to continue working until they have an opportunity to complete the PR process, whether it's through a federal skilled worker or a CEC draw.