Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do think the current system is vulnerable to abuse, and that's one of the reasons why some of the colleagues were speaking about a prioritization system. It's a good opportunity to have the claimants speak about their stories and not closing off...having those systems in place.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the problems that I—oh, sorry.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the problems I have with the whole safe country issue and countries designated as being safe is that it discounts individualized cases. There could be a gentleman in Ghana who is experiencing something that is quite horrific, but would his case be listened to in other safe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  About...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. One of the main concerns of the clients I work with, who are government-assisted and with H and C, is that those applications take a very long time. So if the processing could be quicker, that would be ideal.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the introduction. My name is Julia Porter and I am the settlement social worker with the Association for New Canadians. We're an organization that's community-based, not-for-profit, based out of St. John's, Newfoundland. We offer resettlement a