The weekend has hit the Group along with IRCC... Everyone deserves a break...
I do not see that the targets set for the Express Entry Immigration plan by the Canadian Government could be achieved given the trend of ITA's or PPR's. By end of December IRCC would be crossing the 86K mark of last year which is less than half of the Economic Program and is facing similar situation in other programs as well.
Its time for serious reflection on getting more work force or streamlining the process for faster processing. On the contrary, now I think it could also be a marketing strategy to give an optimistically high requirement so that motivation of people remain high for Canadian PR...