With your permission, minister, I will say that this is where there is a lack of justice or fairness. The fact that we make people wait this long before giving them an answer is really a problem. These are families who have been living here for months or years without knowing what to expect. Some of them are ultimately told, five years after arriving and after they have gone through all the stages, that we're sorry to have to tell them they must go back to their country. During those five years, those people have had the time to work here, to settle and to establish a life. Often they've had time to have children, and those children are Canadian.
Where's the justice when we remove families who have spent five or six years here? That's the major problem.