That's a question I think anybody could answer. To a large extent our federal policy, when it comes to immigration, is driven by public shaming. No one's to be blamed for this specifically—no particular party. This is just the reality of the situation. In their case, absolutely, like every other situation we've had, when you try to exhaust every single avenue—and understand they tried for almost 10 months to go through the proper channels—reaching out repeatedly to the visa office, all of those things—in the end it was finally a matter of going to CBC on September 23. They approached the minister. They approached everyone, and for a variety of reasons, both within and outside the control of the department, they weren't able to get any forward movement, and Zoe had serious medical concerns. The September CBC article is what kick-started.... Global Affairs started keeping them updated, the GoFundMe campaign, the petitions.... I looked today, and over 38,000 were there.
On November 18th, 2020. See this statement in context.