People from Beijing, Canadians, have been here for 10 years and they want their parents to come--they're having a baby and they want a grandparent to babysit, or there are any number of reasons. Maybe they want to live with their parents; they have very traditional family values. They point to the fact that if you sponsor a father or a mother from Paris, you wait a year or two, but if it's someone from Beijing, it's five years plus. They say that's unfair. They say each visa office has a target, and the target number is not balanced, based on the number of applications.
Why one year in Paris and five years in Beijing? I can't answer their question. It's a basic violation of their human rights, they think. They see it that way.
How would one answer that question? How do you set these targets?