Dear friends,
I am in for doing something about it, because if you look at this issue from all angles it is not right. We paid them to be treated like that? How about our feelings to be Canadian while they treat us as outcasts? As I posted before: for me it is not about citizenship now but principles. Someone should be responsible for our sufferings and their wrongdoings. Why they should receive "awards" for not doing their job?
Now about what should we do. I do not think that picketing is a potent way of changing things because, as I posted before, they can easily defend by saying It is standard procedure. Because of that we need somehow to show that IT IS NOT A STANDARD PROCEDURE! For these reasons going to the media with a group and telling our stories will be much beneficial. Or even blogging about it. We could easily point at inefficiencies and waste of money. Tell our stories: for example, CIC behavior ruined my job & travel plans, and cost me a lot of money, let alone that we could not visit our ailing parents! This is because they said first that we will be invited in 2 or max 3 month, later they said it could take up to 6 month and now they said it could take up to 36 month from starting application process.
We should do that not only for our own benefit but for those who might encounter these injustices later.