No, Mr. Chairman, she is not. Under the general construction of IRPA there are three categories of decision-makers. There are a couple of very restricted areas where the minister must decide personally; there are a number of areas where officials make decisions on behalf of the minister, as her delegate; and there is a variety of other categories where the law gives to individual officers the right to decide on their own.
The categories of admissions we're talking about here are given to individual officers. That's in the law now, and this bill does not change that, in the view of the Department of Justice.