To put into perspective some of what we've done, I've never seen Canada's immigration system move as quickly as it has in the last number of weeks. We've had to try something new to respond to this crisis. We've done something unique in this situation and introduced a new temporary program to provide safe haven. We had been preparing for weeks before the incursion began by moving biometrics units into the area and by processing as a priority applications that were in the queue.
We've already seen more than 10,000 Ukrainians land in Canada. That's going back to the beginning of the year, just because that's the dataset I had. However, the new system has taken in more than 50,000 applications in a very short period of time. Despite some challenges that we hear about on the ground and then work to fix, we are seeing that enormous numbers of people are moving. Even today we made the decision to move forward with extending settlement supports for Ukrainians who come to Canada, whether it's reception when they arrive, language training, etc.
This is a full-court press, and we're going to do everything we can.