I don't think steps have been taken to address these concerns, and I think the situation of refugee protection has deteriorated enormously over the last five years. That's really the most critical conclusion I would like to communicate.
Actually, our standards went up. The system that Professor Martin praises is the result of Canada's leadership and example during the 1980s and 1990s. It raised the standard in the U.S.
In the last five years, there has been a very marked deterioration, not that there weren't problems before that. The one-year filing deadline, the detention, and the corroboration requirements have all happened in the last five years.
As I mentioned The New York Times today has a report by a congressional committee, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, expressing enormous frustration that it made critical recommendations two years ago that have been completely unaddressed by the U.S. administrative authorities responsible for adjudicating asylum claims.