Just for context, the pandemic really hit Canada's immigration system very hard in two ways. In some parts of the world, it shut down our presence on the ground due to local public health restrictions, and we don't have the same flexibility in every location in the world to allow staff to work from home as we do in Canada.
The second thing it caused was a need to pivot towards welcoming people who were already here on a temporary basis and who were seeking to become permanent residents instead of bringing people from other countries during a time when the border was closed for public health reasons, which I think are now obvious to all of us here.
We are doing a number of things, which I can put into three categories, to address this: resources, technology and immigration levels spaces.
On the resources front, we've added more than 500 staff who are now working, with $85 million from the economic and fiscal update as it's being deployed across mostly a range of temporary businesses.
On digitization, the technology piece I mentioned, we're on the verge of releasing new functionalities within the modern and digital systems. Some of them have come online already. Just in the interest of time, I'll say that we've added immigration levels spaces so we can welcome more people this year to chip away at the numbers of those who might be waiting to come to Canada.