Do you mind explaining? Both sound the same to me - one being a small absolute number and one being a % of a larger absolute number. What am I missing?
Sure. If I give a quota of 1000 people for each country, I'm limiting a lot the number of people who will enter to Canada because people in some countries don't even think about migrating and I don't know which country will use their quota or which won't.
If I say that no country will be able to go over 15% of the annual quota that doesn't mean I'm assigning a quota for each country. It just means that if your country goes over 15% I'll stop inviting people from them but anyone in any other country will be able to have their spot until they also get to that 15%.
I'm not really sure that if I explained myself very well, but in the second option the amount of people that can be invited would be considerable higher than in the first option. In the first option, however, you would have more diversity, that is why I said that the second option is a middle point between the actual system and a system where they put a cap for each country.
Now if we want to think in a deeper option then the government should study each country, their population and how many of them are they prepared to accept so they can give a different quota for each country, but I believe that's a lot of work that I doubt they would want to do.
By the way, I think that FSW draws are taking so long that everyone is just trying to look for somebody to blame when there is nobody to blame haha. Some blame to the CEC applicants, other to people from other races or native English speakers or whatever. I just hope that draws begin soon so each one of us can get an ITA and move on.