That's exactly right.
That is what happened during the Syrian refugee crisis. Essentially, in my understanding of what took place during that crisis, in order to meet the 25,000 target, they moved visa officers away from many of the posts and had them go to Lebanon and Jordan to process Syrian applications, which essentially stalled all the other applications. Many of them had been in the queue well before the Syrian crisis took effect.
It's a question of equity and justice. We want to be fair with all refugee populations and not place one refugee population ahead of the queue because they have the attention of the Canadian public.
This is why I've argued that if such targets are to be set—sometimes there's reason to do that—additional resources should be deployed and not moved from supporting other programs or other refugee populations.