I don't think the connection with the association or unionizing would have anything to do with the delay, if that's what you're asking. If you're asking if in particular they would keep it away from Monsieur Girard because he was a proponent of having a union, I don't think that would have had anything to do with it.
We had an unwritten rule in the ATIP shop for members of the RCMP; we tried to move their files forward before other people's, usually. I know that this one seemed to take extensive time to process. I think it just piqued my curiosity because he was a division representative. It never crossed my mind that he was unionizing or had anything to do with a union. I just looked at it as more that he was the equivalent of Mr. Lewis in Ottawa.