Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for coming to our committee to present your view. I definitely agree with your report. This is exactly what I presented to the House when I was given the opportunity to comment on Bill C-291. On one hand, we agree that Canada has the most liberal refugee system. Therefore we have attracted many refugee claimants, whether they're genuine or not. That is the major challenge.
I agree with what you've just said, that Mr. St-Cyr's comparison of the passport success rate with the success rate of processing our refugee claimants is actually not an adequate comparison. The EI success rate should not be used as a comparison with the refugee success rate either.
I think we all agree, all of my constituents agree, and all of the other people I've been meeting agree, that there have been a lot of challenges in the refugee system, and therefore we do need reforms. We do need to change some of the things we have been doing so that we won't deter the legitimate refugees who, because of the present system, have to wait for a very long period of time.
In your view, will Bill C-291 actually be a solution to...? For example, as soon as people get on the plane, they eat their passports or they flush them down the toilet. Then, because they've landed, they have to go through the whole system.
Thanks to our government and Mr. Jason Kenney, the last 25 Vietnamese refugees staying in the Philippines will finally be arriving in Canada. The Vietnamese community thanks the government for doing that. Those are legitimate refugees who have been waiting there for so many years because of a system that needs reform and because of illegitimate claimants who came in a boat just off the coast of British Columbia. As soon as the boat enters our waters, they say “We're refugees.”
Those are the actual challenges. They even come in, again talking about Mexico....
I would like Mr. Fadden to comment on whether Bill C-291 would really improve the system.