You are referring to the budget decisions of the government and the impact on the Immigration and Refugee Board. They've had to make severe cutbacks and one of the Immigration and Refugee Board's responses was effectively, as you said, to close the Ottawa office, so that all hearings for the Ottawa regions will be held in Montreal. I'm sure that will cause hardship for many individuals who are living in the Ottawa region and who would have to travel to Montreal or to proceed by video conference, which is very problematic.
On May 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.