I appreciate what you said. Let me just explain a little bit. The last large wave of Roma refugees with these same numbers came in the late 1990s, early 2000s, and it was the first time after the fall of communism that Canada had removed the visa restriction from these countries. Roma flooded in. There was a lead case decision to close the door. It was overturned eventually, and they've said they would never put a precedent of a lead case decision to decide on a large group of refugee claims from any ethnic or nationality group to come into Canada.
The visa requirement was reimposed. I was in Hungary working at the European Roma Rights Centre based in Budapest, Hungary, in 2006, when our Canadian government came and hosted a round table discussion at the Central European University. The honourable Robert Hage was there that day and the purpose of the discussion was to gauge the situation for Roma in Hungary. The Canadian government was trying to decide whether or not that was the time to perhaps remove the visa requirement. We heard from Hungarians and Roma. Academics, journalists, and a whole slew of people from civil society gave us a picture of the Roma. Robert Hage left with a very clear description that it's a dismal situation. Almost 50% of our Roma children do not graduate from primary school, and 10% are lucky if they're getting through high school. There is only 2% who have post-secondary education. There's an 85% unemployment rate and almost complete exclusion from society over there.
It took from September 2006 to 2009 to remove that visa requirement again, and you saw what happened. The Roma came flooding into the country. They're looking for safety. They're looking for someone to protect them. They're looking to live with dignity and integrity.
Now there are people coming, and I'm not saying that everybody is 100%—