Ok, so I have this thought in mind. I want to know what do you all think about it...
Sorry for long post in advance!
Many of us have some sort of correspondence with the government, whether it is the IRCC or local MP. I'm sure, we all agree that those excuses or "reason for delay" as they call it - are not reasonable
(I'm still laughing at that last RCMP one! like really? 11 months to get a clearance from RCMP?). These stories and people are fragmented all over these forums with 81 pages here, to hundreds in other monthly AORs, Montreal, Ottawa, etc. forums. I see so many of these posts have excellent factual points. We all know the issue at large, and at minor scale in those responses from ircc. I don't want to discourage anyone, but even if we take the most optimistic outlook of the situation where ircc is working at full capacity processing with only inlanders, I don't think they will be able to give copr to every last of us by Christmas considering the backlogs at hand.
I was wondering, if we all can work together and create a proper rational comprehensive documentation of the issue - that would be great! It will provide a deeper understanding to outsiders about what the issue is, why actions needs to be taken on promptly. We can list out the issues we are facing by the unfair treatment of the ircc, problems or stress we face at personal level in our everyday life, ircc and ministry's response to the issue and why it is not justifiable, we can provide factual statistics which can be from our correspondence with the govt, from privacy commission, immitracker or ircc publicly-released data. In short, a brief documentation package which we can treat it like a press release, which we can refer to everyone in our communications and would be updated from time to time.
We can also get a domain up on the internet, I can help to create a website which will include all those information with back-links and citations. We can also use it to reach out to journalists and media who may have written something about in past year and a half to grab more attention. We can create a prefilled letter, which individuals can use it as a sample to write it to their MP if needed. We can create specific section on the website which will list the most recent relevant update like let's say somebody tried a new approach and what response they got. We don't need to scroll through tens of pages across multiple forums and groups every week to find that relevant information. Even we can gather everyone in one place with, lets say mailing list, with full privacy of individuals to update them from time to time, whether if we want to trend something on twitter or want to see minister in person as a group in future, or whether we want to start an online petition which has not worked out very well in our case in the past.
I don't know, these are just my thoughts. I know its not perfect, will have issues and would require a lot of work and time but I think it would be worth a shot. Just want to know, what do you all think about it?
Thanks for surviving through my writer personality!