Certainly. Thank you, Ms. Kayabaga, for the question.
First of all, I think we all agree that the situation in Ukraine merits a significant response, given the scale of this unjust and unnecessary war of aggression. One of the things we wanted to do was to move as quickly as possible. We established a system that was based on the way in which we bring visitors to Canada. That system has the greatest horsepower in terms of the number of applications that we have the ability to process each year.
It's important that we make sure that we properly fund these changes. If we don't, we're asking the same system to do more without extra resources. To date, there's been $117 million of additional funding profiled to make sure that we are backstopping this new system with the funds necessary to deal with the volume. In the short term, it's possible that we could have some resources pivoting from one stream of business, or even different departments, to help out with this effort. We intend to have the funding come into place to make sure that we can pay for these new services that we're offering so that we avoid the kind of circumstance to the extent possible that you've just signalled.
Certainly, there is no decision to pull away from people who would impact francophone applications specifically. If anything, I would try desperately to avoid that situation.