Thank you.
I would like to thank you for appearing before the committee and for having presented the same figures as your predecessor, Mr. Fleury, who appeared previously as the chairman. Mr. Fleury cared about the Refugee Appeal Division being set up, but he felt that it was a political decision.
Despite everything, the legislators passed the bill here, in Parliament. The sections of the law are in place. I know that the tribunal is independent and that Citizenship and Immigration Canada is in control as far as the implementation of the Refugee Appeal Division is concerned.
It was the Assistant Deputy Minister, Mr. Malcolm Brown I believe, who said earlier that there would be 40,000 additional refugee cases in the backlog and that that would have repercussions on the Refugee Appeal Division.
Do you know where these refugees would come from?