That's a good question.
I'll start off with a clarification. It's not 5,000 complaints; it's 5,000 repatriations or deportations. These are 5,000 people who for whatever reason--we don't know--were basically forced to leave the program. Basically, their jobs were cut for them.
The responsibilities of the agencies in Canada would be to both HRSDC as well as Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The other part of this whole thing is that there's a private consortium, a non-profit group called FARMS, that regulates the program.
In 1987 the program was basically privatized--it used to be run by the federal government--and therefore the transparency and accountability that was needed was basically gotten rid of, so one of the things also to consider is to abolish FARMS--abolish FERME--and develop a regulated government-run program to make sure there's accountability in this process.
The second component is that somewhere in Canada, somewhere in Toronto this week, the Canadian government and the governments of the Caribbean and Mexico are getting together with these organizations, FARMS and FERME, but no worker advocates or workers will be present at these discussions. There's no input for the workers themselves to have any way to address the issues they're facing here in Canada, so I think that's part of it. The fact is that these workers won't have any representation; the right to organize is extremely and integrally important.