The impact is definitely great. One lawyer told me this morning that she was constantly receiving calls from the IRB to cancel refugee claimants' hearings. As a result of a shortage of Board members, the IRB has no other choice but to postpone hearings. It's hard for the lawyers, who make every effort to prepare their clients and who must then set that aside, but it's obviously even worse for asylum seekers, who are hoping for an outcome, who are preparing mentally and psychologically for the hearing, then are told that it's postponed.
The issue of family separation is very dramatic. I'm going to tell you about the case of an Iraqi. He says that, every time he speaks by telephone with his wife in Baghdad, she cries and asks him when they can be reunited. His hearing hasn't yet been set; so it could be a long time. There's no answer to give him. I don't have an answer to give him either because, as a result of the shortage of Board members, who knows when he'll have a hearing?