The longest is African visa posts, the Canadian visa posts in Africa. Pretoria has a 46-month average processing time and Abidjan is the worst, with a 49-month average processing time. And that's only part of the process, from the point at which the visa post receives the forms from the refugee and they reach a decision. Before and after that, we still need time to prepare the refugee to come to Canada.
On February 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.