Mr. Chair, in all departments we have a level of appeal, be it for the Canada Pension Plan or the disability plan. You apply, you have the first appeal, you go in front of the referees, and then after that you can go in front of the umpire. It is the same thing with EI: you apply, you can go in front of the referees, and then you have the umpire. Even in WCB, the Workers' Compensation Board, in all the provinces you have the right to appeal.
Why in this instance are we taking the right of appeal from the people who want to appeal? Is it because they're not landed immigrants? Is it because they're not Canadians? Or is it that we don't want to have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as we enjoy it, the rest of us, also apply to them? In every other department we do. What is the problem if we also allow it here?
You're saying to me that you don't have resources and that you're going to have to take resources from everywhere else to put there. I say to you, Mr. Fadden, that your resources right now.... If you do an in-Canada spousal sponsorship, it takes four years. Well, your resources, sir, are not well managed to begin with anyway.