Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I've been listening to Mr. Nagy's name being mispronounced quite a few times. It's Nagy. I just came back from the land of the Hungarians, so that is the proper pronunciation for the record.
Dealing with these cases is so very emotional and you have so much invested. I know, from my experiences, when you see an obviously bad decision, then you try to correct that particular case.
You really document well all the issues that are involved that should be changed within the refugee determination system. On political appointments who then get reappointed, we would never stand for our judges being reappointed every four years. It just doesn't make any sense. In cases where IRB members want to be reappointed, they feel that they must please the government of the day, if you will. That, to me, is totally wrong. It's not the way justice is supposed to work.
It's quite the misinformation that our system is just and fair, because you can't have a just and fair system if you don't have an appeal.
You mentioned that in 2004 there was a unanimous vote of the citizenship and immigration committee to implement the RAD. I hope when this issue comes up again, we will once again get a unanimous vote from this committee calling on the government to implement the RAD. We have heard evidence before this committee that if we had a fairer system, we could do it much faster and it would cut down on costs because we wouldn't have to have the appeal to the Federal Court, and this is something it does not want to do anyway.
I'm sure you have turned down many cases that came to you for sanctuary. It takes a tremendous amount of effort to do what you do. I really hope that your advocacy role also goes into the public arena more, because this mindset that we have a fair and just system really has to change. It's difficult when you're dealing with the cases themselves, but I think the churches could get it together and have a political action arm, if you will, one that is totally non-partisan but pushes issues that you all work toward and you all believe in.
I wonder if you have a comment on that.