I believe it plays a major role. I'm not going to say that a lot of the reasons are mostly because of racism, but I believe it plays a major role. The number speaks for itself. The rate of refusals speaks for itself. It's undeniably standing there, right in front of our very own eyes.
You are right. It's very difficult for immigration consultants when we have to go back to our clients and say that, unfortunately, the application has been refused. Quite often, we will make an ATIP request, but that, too, takes a very long time to get a response.
There are all those factors. I'm looking at the numbers. I believe it plays a major role in the mounting backlog. It is definitely affected somewhat by racism.
Like I said, I'm not going to say a lot of it is because of racism, but I would definitely say that it contributes to it.