Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, but I can't hear you out here in Vancouver. Can you speak up a bit?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Nothing very broad, because I think there are some good elements there already. I think having the first decision made by public servants makes good sense. There are pros and cons, but that is what is used in most countries. We still have an independent body for the appeal syste

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not exactly sure how that subnational policy is going to be spelled out. I think you'd still have to look at whether there is government persecution, because there's no question that in many countries there is discrimination against particular groups. I raised the issue tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's conceivable, but to me, either it's a safe country in general terms, because of questions of persecution, or it's not. Now, if a particular group is being persecuted by the government, I think there would be a case for looking at that situation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I'm not going to give you a simple answer. I would want to consider it further. I've already named a host of countries where there is a very clear question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you're trying to find a marginal case, I'm not going to proceed further.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll wrap up. We may have to simply refuse to process applications from such individuals. In conclusion, I'd like to point out Canada is more than generous in terms of its refugee policy. As I mentioned already, we have the most generous system of benefits in the world, as wel

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The spike occurred about 20 years ago. I don't think there was any basis at that time for people making refugee claims as they did. Most of them were turned down. A lot of them were already in the country, and to try and get out of the situation, the government at the time told t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is sufficiently democratic that it would probably fall into the category of safe country of origin--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  --even though they do have some internal problems, there's no doubt about that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you asking me a question?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I haven't followed his.... Yes, they do have some problems, but I'll suspend my judgment on Turkey. Let me mention where there has been a spike: Mexico, where there is a lot of domestic violence--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to look at Turkey in more detail, but I listed a host of countries that are clearly safe countries of origin and where there is no doubt.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Some countries we might have to have some discussion on whether they're safe or not. I'm--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  --not going to discuss marginal cases at this point.