First of all you need to understand that quota is not how much ITAs CIC will issue it is about how much people will land as a immigrant in 2018. And obviously 2018 starts from jan 1 2018.Is it confirmed news that the 2018 quota will start from April 2018 n not november 2017???
Waiting @428....This seems an infinite loop....
So from 1st jan 2018 to 31st dec 2018 number of people to land in canada as an immigrant is what the targets depend upon.
And as you know that CIC standard processing time is 6 months so whomsoever is getting ITA by now will land in 2018 so we are already getting ITAs of 2018.
And as a rule of law they have to announce 2018 immigration quota by 1st november 2017 so they will announce the full quota of total immigrants with full breakdown of how much will come in particular stream.
Quota will not get implented in march april in march april they release departmental plan.