Article content There were requirements for cumbersome paperwork, long delays in processing applications and a hellish crush around the airport where evacuation flights awaited. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “My life is in danger,” an interpreter rejected by the program told the National Post’s Joe O’Connor in 2011. Article content “My inbox just … exploded,” recalled Rickards, as would-be evacuees wondered how they could possibly meet the deadline.

Source: National Post September 03, 2021 16:49 UTC