Good afternoon. I'm David Chan, acting director of asylum policy at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
What these amendments bring is not really related to the safe third country agreement. The amendments we're putting forward are in relation to the practice of online claims that were introduced during the pandemic. We weren't able to do these processes in person, so we allowed claimants to file their claims online.
With the pandemic behind us, we're looking to formalize this arrangement because it has provided enormous benefits to case processing for claimants to be able to access their claims online, and for a more seamless data transfer among departments that are involved in claim processing.
That's really the main focus of the amendments under division 16.