Could I add one thing?
In answer to your question from the point of view of the advocacy community, this has been enormously frustrating.
If we go back to the implementation or even the drafting of IRPA 2002, there was an ongoing dialogue with the department, the minister, and so on.
A type of deal was struck whereby the number of commissioners would fall from two to one. There used to be two commissioners, two IRB members who would hear each case, which in theory reduced the scope for human error. In exchange, there would be a refugee appeal division that would save an enormous number of positions overall or would reduce the number of positions and save taxpayers' money.
It was enormously frustrating to see the part of the deal that reduced a safeguard was implemented but not the part of the deal that put in a new protection.
On at least one occasion, one minister appeared before the Canadian Council for Refugees and said they were not doing it right away, but they promised to do it within a year. The year passed and nothing happened.
At another time, your committee asked the minister to come up with something within six months or to explain why he was not implementing it. I don't believe you ever got a really good explanation.