Yes, Chair, as was mentioned earlier, the number of job categories under which a skilled worker could come into the country has been reduced from over 300 to 38. This was introduced in November 2008 retroactive to February 2008. What effectively happened was that there is what we call a pre-February 2008 inventory. All of the applications from February 2008 were put into a new process. No applications were processed between February 2008 and December 2008, so the only processing was on the previous system. So of course the numbers went down from about 600 to about 450. Meanwhile, under the new system, all the applications were put in abeyance. So there has been an overall reduction of inventory of old and new applications of about 5%.
On November 4th, 2009. See this statement in context.