One question that came up earlier is in terms of the safe third country agreement with the United States. We had a case with a Pakistani doctor who got out. She was raped, she went to England, but she could not apply for refugee status in Canada because she was in England. She was refused...to apply for refugee status in Canada. We have those kinds of situations that are somewhat analogous to the safe third.
I'd like your opinion. We had a presentation from the European Union. The ones that belong to the European Union are members of OSCE and they have to abide by the Organization on Security and Co-operation in Europe. They have to abide by their human rights standards. They're members of NATO and they have to abide by those standards, and of course there's the European Union itself. I wonder if it's just not a waste of effort for us to be entertaining refugee claims from the European Union.
The reason I raise that is I think their system is at least as good as ours, or they have more safeguards than we do, given the multiplicity of the bodies. The other issue is that there's a problem with visa requirements from some of the countries that belong to the European Union, which creates a problem between us and Europe in case they want to reciprocate.
Would you agree that the European standard in terms of human rights is at least equal to, if not better than, Canada's?