Basically, CIC does not think that these refugees meet their resettlement needs. If you go again to part 4 on page 22, the minister at the time--last November--says in paragraph 3, line 3 that “Canada has considered this group against the broader definition of refugee under the Country of Asylum Class and maintains that they are not in need of Canada's protection.”
Basically, that's the standard they take. Whether these people need resettlement or the protection of Canada depends on CIC. It depends on the minister. If the minister, as was the case in the U.S. or Australia or Norway, thinks that they are in need of resettlement, that they need protection, and that they are refugees, then they will be recognized. In Norway, in fact, there is no program such as the country of asylum class. In Australia we did have a similar class, called the special humanitarian program, and that's how Australia accepted these people as refugees. Norway had to pass a special law to recognize them as refugees. Canada, in the end, just didn't want to, but that's just CIC.