Thank you, Chair.
I'll make just a brief comment on that.
That is not what we want either, of course, and I hope very much that we don't have to go down that road. I'm aware, of course, of the history of the arrival, some years ago now, of Roma citizens of some of the countries that are now member states of the European Union and of their applications for asylum.
I would say a number of things. First of all, Europe has changed. These countries have changed. There is a new reality in Europe. I wouldn't presume to comment on the Canadian system for protection of fundamental rights, but from what I can see from afar, it looks pretty good. But we have, as you rightly say, a considerable network of systems of protection of fundamental rights in each country in the European Union, in the other organizations to which you referred.
All of our member states are parties to the European Convention on Human Rights, to the system of adjudication in Strasbourg to which that gives rise, and to the European Union's own legal system, which contains a whole series of protections as well.
Those are the facts. I think some of the concerns that were expressed some years ago would no longer make a lot of sense today. So these are clearly issues that I very much hope the Canadian authorities will take to heart.