Actually, we would like to make our way through the backlog as quickly as possible. We are sensitive to the time people are spending waiting. We are concerned about that.
At various times we have asked if people wanted to maintain their application or simply to receive a refund. Interestingly, most people do want to maintain their application, so we have to continue with the processing—but we do make that offer to them.
We have made good progress in the past 12 months. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, that backlog has been reduced by nearly 40%. So we'll see.
In the future it really will depend on getting out a new set of ministerial instructions and then how we balance these two things, the new applications versus the ones in the backlog. That's what we're working on now and what we're talking about to provinces, territories, and stakeholders.