Depending on what challenges you're talking about, some of it may have been an effort to actually avoid other steps, such as in-person interviews, that were not possible, so we could expedite the process despite the fact those weren't available. In and of itself, the number of requirements added is not a “make or break” when it comes to acceptable or unacceptable. It's a matter of whether we're doing everything we can to facilitate their travel to Canada. If that was what motivated those extra requirements, then I think it would be acceptable. If they were put up for the sake of delaying the process, obviously that would not be, but I expect it was the former, not the latter.
On April 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.