The caps that Brian Dyck was referring to have been particularly affecting refugees from Africa. There have been very serious limits on the number of refugees who can be sponsored out of Africa. The timelines for processing have been particularly long. The other constraints mean that it is very difficult for a private sponsor to put in an application to sponsor an African refugee. We are hearing a lot from our members who are of African origin, who point out the very vast and compelling needs in the region and who see that there is a lot of response from Canada—and rightly so, nobody is questioning that—to the situation in the Middle East. The scale of the problems is highlighted right now in Kenya, where the Kenyan government has said that it is going to close the refugee camps and create a forced return of people to Somalia, affecting hundreds of thousands of people potentially. Of course, there are many people there who are extremely anxious about that situation and there are many vulnerable people who are in those refugee camps. That's an urgent situation, which many of us feel is not getting the attention it deserves.
We can also speak of the situation in Eritrea, where very serious human rights abuses are going on. Canada has some level of responsibility in that we have Canadian companies that are involved in mining in that country and have been alleged to have contributed to the abuses in terms of the workers at those mines.
So I think we need to do more to pay attention to the situations in Africa and to respond to the refugees there.