That's precisely our concern. The current pre-removal risk assessment is usually used after someone has already been rejected, so they get a second possibility of a review a year later, if their case is over a year, before removal. It's a paper review done by an officer.
Now the government is telling us that they're going to provide for oral hearings in all cases. The difficulty with that is that the tribunal that is now doing the PRRAs has no experience in doing oral hearings because they're very rare. In our practice, we have 10 lawyers representing hundreds of PRRA applicants. In the last two years, I think we probably had one oral hearing, so it's extremely rare. The officers don't have the practice or the experience. There are no facilities, so they're going to have to create a whole new system, a whole new infrastructure, if they're going to do what they're saying, which is to have this so-called enhanced PRRA.
We've just been through a process with the Immigration and Refugee Board. There is $200 million in the current budget to allow the board to process cases. The board is finally managing to process cases efficiently, yet now they're going to have to spend millions of dollars on a separate parallel process, which will still not be as fair as the current refugee protection division. The officers who are PRRA officers don't have the same level of training or experience, and they're not independent. This is a really ill-conceived measure from all sorts of points of views, but specifically, given that this is a budget, as an expenditure in our budget.