Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess what I've been trying to explain is that EOI in itself doesn't change things related to program requirements or processes outside of it, so EOI in itself doesn't change the LMO requirements. Those requirements are related to the specific program streams that may be run th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, but I don't really—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're working with ESDC, which is the labour market department, and they have responsibility for LMOs and labour market information, so—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, if an individual is not accepted into the EOI system, there will be—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, one of the fundamental goals of EOI is to eliminate or move away from a backlog situation. The ability to only invite applications from people to the number for whom we have available processing capacity and spots in our annual levels plan will prevent the accumulation of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've been working very closely with the provinces and territories for well over a year, talking about EOI design and policy development. Those discussions are ongoing and have been very helpful and productive, and they will continue. As well, we've had a number of opportunitie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have two aspects to answer on that front. The emphasis we're going to place is the importance of a job offer. Having employers able to provide job offers to these individuals in itself gets at part of that, in that presumably employers would not be offering jobs to individuals

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Quite honestly, I think we'll be developing EOI in sort of phases between now and January 2015, when it's intended to be launched.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will still on the application for permanent residence side have to—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will have more, yes, streamlined and aligned—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I mentioned, we're working on cost and resource implications, so in terms of quantifying—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends on what you're looking for and whether you're looking for a permanent person or a temporary foreign worker.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, depending on the stream, if you're hoping to hire somebody through a stream where there is an LMO requirement, then yes, you would be dealing with Service Canada, undergoing the advertising—