Thank you.
I want to disagree with my parliamentary colleague across the way, Mr. Christopherson, with regard to your accomplishments in reducing the backlog, which I think are significant. The only fair assessment is from February 2008 forward when the new rules came in. In parallel, you reduced the old list by 241,000 workers, while at the same time reducing the waiting time by over five years for 80% of new applicants. I think that's a major accomplishment. It's good management, and you deserve to be congratulated.
My question is along that line. You mentioned you need some mechanism to limit the intake of applicants because there are so many applicants and because 450 million people in the world want to come to Canada. Do you have a recommendation for the minister on how to do that, and if you do, what might it look like?