The processing challenges aren't unique to one line of business or another, though some are impacted to a different degree.
There are three different categories of measures, if I can describe it that way, that we're dealing with to improve the situation. The first is resources; the second is technology, and the third is spaces.
On resources, I shared with you previously that we've hired more than 500 staff, who are now fully trained and working and producing. In addition, the money in the economic and fiscal update, mostly on the temporary side of business, is going to make a meaningful difference.
You would have seen from late January the announcement we made about certain technological features that are coming online, and I believe that was a subject of testimony before this committee previously, so I won't rehash all the details. Suffice it to say that the PR case tracker for family reunification is now online, and people can get real-time updates on their own files. There are a number of other measures I can go into if you wish.
Finally, on spaces, increasing the number of overall spaces will help us play catch-up to a certain degree, but I will say that since January we've now processed more than 143,000 PR applications. By the end of February, in the first two months, we saw more than 100,000 approvals. We are actually processing at a much faster pace than before the end of last year, and it's encouraging to see some of these investments take hold to make a very significant difference in terms of the rate at which we have been able to process in the first few months of this year.