I certainly appreciate that, but I want to reiterate that you cannot start preferring one group over another group when you're dealing with humanitarian and compassionate grounds, simply for the reason that it has to be something that's equitable and fair between groups. I think we have in Canada probably as fair and as compassionate a refugee system as you'll find perhaps anywhere in the world, with all of the room in there for exercise of compassion and so on. If one were to utilize discretion, it would have to be principled, but it would also have to be equitable and fair between groups. Otherwise, when you're looking at the greater public good, you potentially have others saying that if you've done that here, then you need to do it there and there as well.
You have to take a reasoned and fair approach. I understand the argument on the other side, but I just wanted to bring up that issue of the public good and the class action. I realize that the process as it is in the Philippines perhaps is not expeditious, but it is headed in the right direction, toward the point of regularization. The uptake has been significant over the years by the other countries, and this is the remaining portion.
So I don't think that changes anything in terms of the position I've taken.