No. Let me remind you again that I'm here as a private sponsor sharing my personal experience and perceptions. I'm not appearing as a representative of my party. I'm not appearing here to defend many of the perceptions, real and imagined, about the inequities involved between government-sponsored and privately sponsored refugees. I spoke to the issues of inequities that I see with regard to the travel costs and with regard to the financial burden imposed on private sponsors when the volume of arrivals increases the burden on private sponsors and private sponsor groups, SAH holders.
That one-night hotel stay was an almost insignificant benefit to the private sponsors, who all of a sudden.... I'll give you a good example. A number of the members of the Armenian community are sponsoring more than one family, and spaced out over several months, they were able to receive a family of normally five, six, or seven members, find accommodation, settle people, find their furniture, and get them into schools. However, all of a sudden in December and January, when the government accelerated the program and began using in the early weeks the private sponsors who had already been in the works for some months, or in some cases years, effectively dumping multiple families on people who had expected to settle one family at a time, it became a real burden both in terms of the cost of temporary accommodation and hotels and in finding permanent accommodation and all of the other settlement procedures that are involved.