Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of the witnesses this morning for your testimony. It's been very helpful. I want to say that my party's original position on this agreement—that it shouldn't go forward—has been confirmed by what you have to say. Nothing has changed my mind about it. I think we're realizing some of our worst fears about what the agreement would mean to our refugee protection work. I certainly still feel that this is an agreement that we should be abrogating without delay.
I have a very specific question that comes out of the United Nations High Commissioner's monitoring report on the safe third country that we received back in June. One of the major issues that was noted in there—and maybe, Mr. Rico-Martinez, you could respond to this—was the UNHCR noted particular concern regarding the direct-back policy. This was the situation that when someone arrived at the border, made a claim, and Canadian officials couldn't deal with them, they were sent back to the U.S. with a time for an appointment to come back to Canada to make their claim, and sometimes they don't make it back because they're detained in the U.S. when they're sent back. There was an undertaking that the policy would end this past summer. I'm just wondering if it's your experience that that has indeed been the case, or if the direct-backs are still happening.