Essentially, people are telling us that the bureaucracy is very slow. When people try to bring someone from Haiti, it is very difficult. Even in Port-au-Prince, people do not have access to the embassy.
First, there have been no new measures to allow for expedited processing of applications, as we were told. Everyone verifies that. We, personally, at CONACOH, have worked with people who had their access code for consulting their immigration file. Processing of each of those cases is at the same point. That is one of the things we are told. We are also told that the embassy in Port-au-Prince cannot deliver services. There is probably a human resources problem, or I don't know what. We are told that given the number of applications coming from Haiti and Canada, they can't deliver services.
We, at CONACOH, we just in a meeting on Saturday with people from the community to talk about the immigration question. The people stressed that some cases can be resolved here, in Canada. We keep talking about this because it is what the people instructed us to do. Then tell us that this absolutely has to be done, because things are moving very slowly in Port-au-Prince. I think there are some cases that involve temporary resident visa applications that would be processed in the Dominican Republic. But not everyone is able to go to the Dominican Republic to have their application processed. So we can't talk about an expedited process for the people intended to benefit, the clientele, members of the community.