Thank you for your question.
I can only suggest that the existing problem be looked at differently. Lately I was looking at how cities manage traffic flows. There is a whole branch of mathematics that looks at this, and they observed that adding lanes to a highway increases traffic congestion. It's called Braess's paradox. I'll send in more details to the clerk.
When we added the TR to PR pathway, we added another lane. We have almost 80 programs in Canada, and congestion seems to be increasing. I think more people want to pull onto the highway ramp. The backlog seems to have grown very quickly since some of these programs have come into being.
The counterpart to that paradox is that removing a main road could result in speeding up the traffic flow. That doesn't really make sense. It sounds counterintuitive, but that seems to be what's happened in a number of cities. Maybe we can think about that, and look at the problem through that lens.
What would be the main road? I don't want to say what that could be, but it could require some thought on what would happen. Work permits are probably the biggest road, but maybe it could be express entry. Maybe eliminating a category for a short period or converting a category into another program—changing the size of the vehicle, so to speak—could—