As a Canadian organization operating with 70% of our grants coming from the government, I think when we craft this law, what is needed is for it to be fair and to be balanced. Having said that, we do recognize and share your concern in terms of the privilege we can confer to refugees--and I stress that it's a privilege that we confer to refugees. At the same time, we have to balance out Canadian interests. Striking that balance needs the wisdom of Solomon. I don't think we can always get it right. We may need to err on the side sometimes of refugees and sometimes on the interests of the country. That's why we propose that there should be a very clear, open, and transparent monitoring system.
To refer to a previous question, we need to make sure the civil servants who are given those discretions cannot, without political masters and the public, knowingly violate those trusts that were given to them. I think that's the fear. It's a fear that's being expressed here as well as from some of the discussions I've heard in the media. That fear is that when civil servants are given those kinds of discretions, they may abuse them. I think that's the key point here.