Mr. Chairman, does the minister understand that she is putting in place a structure to replace a system that has withstood charter challenges on several occasions? She is replacing something reliable, solid, and valid, with something that is purely arbitrary. She says that the charter is one of the guarantees, but what right would an immigrant have if he is not here yet? What right would someone in another country have to challenge a decision under the charter? She is creating an opportunity to exclude people by category, even by country of origin. That is exactly what becomes possible under what she is proposing, and she completely destroyed her own argument at the start of her presentation today, when she told us that the problem was the obligation to process all applications in the order in which they arrive. In saying that, she is confirming that she wants people to be able to take the place of someone else ahead of them in the line. She is admitting to something shameful.
On April 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.