It's the immigration division too. It takes months and months. In Toronto, if you want to get a deportation hearing involving someone who's allegedly a terrorist, or an organized criminal, or something like that, it can take six months to a year before you get a hearing date scheduled. I have clients for whom we got reports a year ago, and we're only now getting notification of scheduling. If they're not detained, there are huge delays.
It's a bit hypocritical for the minister to say that we have to speedily remove all these dangerous people, when it takes them years to process...and get to the point where they can be removed.