Jenny, we can see how we each want to answer it.
It is indeed a concern. Why introduce these changes into a budget bill without going through a more in‑depth consultation process? At the Canadian Council for Refugees, we have a lot of information, considerable expertise and substantiated positions on this subject. We were therefore surprised to see these changes added to the bill in that manner.
The budget included significant funding, which we supported. However, we are not in favour of these particular changes.
We understand that the government has regulatory plans that have not yet been announced, and so it wants to make the legislative amendments quickly to ensure that these regulations will be adopted. But that's not how to make legislative changes. Without having seen the regulations, it's very difficult to know exactly what impact the proposed changes will have.
In any event, we feel that these changes were proposed too quickly. We even believe that there are errors in them and that the government has not fully understood the consequences of these proposed legislative amendments. For example, the expressions and words used are very inflexible.
For example, it says, “the Minister must refer”.
Many of the amendments that would cause automatic guaranteed outcomes to happen to refugee claimants absolutely would not only jeopardize their rights and their justice but also lead to massive backlogs, counterintuitively, in the process.
We're recommending that we put a pause on the refugee and immigration law reforms. Cut them from the bill and find ways to review them separately, or simply delete the measures.
Would you like to add anything, Ms. Jeanes?