Perhaps I can just give an example. At the basilica in St. John's, we've had a collective agreement to bring a family from Sudan. We started three or four years ago to try to bring this family to Canada, because one of the relatives is a member of our parish community. They were living not in the Sudan, but in another country, and I believe, for example, that parishioners of the parish were sending money to this other country to try to help them live while this process was going on.
Through our committee, also, in Canada, we were supporting this relative. For example, we were allowing him to phone Africa regularly to keep in touch with them. Mr. Doyle knows this case very well, because we appealed to him a number of times to help with this case, because there seemed to be, for whatever reason, delays.
Happily, about a month ago, the family arrived. There are four sons, if I'm not mistaken, and one of them is very young. We've been able to find a house for them--someone gave his house. Right now what we're doing is looking for 20 people to give $35 a month, which will help us, then, to support them in some way until they get established. We found a school for them. They don't really speak English that well, so they're going to have quite a difficult time. This is just one example I'm familiar with of the things we need to do.
Our concern is whether there is some way this process can be sped up. As I say, I think it was about three to four years for this case to be looked at.