Mr. St-Cyr, thank you for your question and your concern for the refugee system.
Canada already has one of the best refugee determination systems in the world, even according to the UN High Commissioner. The system provides for a number of recourse mechanisms for rejected refugee claimants. They may file an application for judicial review by the Federal Court of the decision rendered against them. They may also request a pre-removal risk assessment, as well as permanent residence on compassionate grounds. I would add that, at this stage, the implementation of the Refugee Appeal Division to which you refer would, in my view, only complicate the process, which is already a lengthy one. It would increase pressure on the system.
Lastly, I believe that the implementation of an appeal process would be possible only if we simplified the current system to prevent applicants from gaining access to numerous overlapping types of recourse. Ultimately, that means that we already have a number of support levels. As you know, our waiting list is very long. So I don't want to complicate matters further by adding another support level without first simplifying the system.