We are dealing with a Colombian case in which two brothers are making refugee claims here in Canada, and their mother is still in the hands of the guerillas in Colombia. They are forced even here to send money back to keep their mother alive in Colombia. The whole core of the case is a distortion, given how they have been forced to do this and their mother is back there. There is plenty of evidence about this. A lawyer in the United States advised them not to make a claim in the U.S., because if they mentioned the core of the case, they would be immediately banned and rejected. Here in Canada, the hearing will be in two months, and it's clear that these persons may be accepted by the Immigration and Refugee Board, because our rate of acceptance is almost 80% in the case of Colombia.
So the situation is very different between the two countries. Mandatory detention is also something we don't have here in Canada, and we don't have the one-year bar. Everybody agreed that it would not be possible, because the one-year bar is even worse for women, because they are the ones who.... The principal applicant is a man, and if a situation of domestic violence, or whatever, happens later on, they are banned, even though their first intention was to make a claim immediately when the situation happened. In that case, the differences are abysmal.