When it comes to skills recognition, the professional orders will clearly take issue with that because they'll want to protect their turf. Perhaps there should be some pressure on them to complete their analysis within a reasonable timeframe. I don't think that 60 days is an unreasonable amount of time to determine whether an applicant is eligible to become part of a medical order, the bar or another order. It would make sense. The professional orders will say that they need money to pull it off. Discussions will obviously need to take place.
As for the other point you raised, you're right again. We're missing something. We're sort of victims of our appeal, which we underestimate. There aren't many places in the world that are as geopolitically stable as Canada and offer the same quality of life. We're always going to attract more people than we'll be able to handle, even if we increase processing capacity.
I don't have the magic solution, but I'm open to any and all suggestions. Obviously, more resources would make things interesting.