Yes. Thank you.
Again, in Saskatchewan, with the Saskatchewan immigrant nominee program, SINP, we saw great success in managed, efficient and effective immigration levels. We were bringing in entrepreneurs, and that was a complement to the federal system at the time. I want to say that it was probably around 2012 to 2018, somewhere in there.
When the federal limits increased, Saskatchewan wasn't quite prepared for it. Essentially what happened, though, was that the federal limits increased, but they put a cap on that program, so what we saw was that immigrants were coming in, but not in a managed and orderly way. I think that the longer we have backlogs and the longer we have bottlenecks in the system, the more we're going to see challenges in our community and see those pressures on the required services from immigrants who aren't processed thoroughly.
Yes, I think the federal government has created, exacerbated and increased our problems in Saskatoon specifically.
