I would point out that it's been the longstanding practice of the Government of Canada under different parties in power to ensure that criminals, particularly dangerous criminals, are removed from this country if they're foreign nationals. Even though Canada has long had a system of temporary stay of removals for certain countries in conflict, countries it is unsafe to remove individuals to, there's always been an exception in the temporary stay of removal policy, so that with regard to criminals, particularly dangerous criminals, their removal is not stayed by virtue of the country's conditions.
This is consistent across the world. I can't understand why we would pick out one particular country. Right now, I think we have seven countries on the temporary stay of removal list. I don't know why we would say, okay, we'll remove dangerous criminals to those seven countries, but not this one. That doesn't make sense to me, and it doesn't make sense to me from a public safety point of view. Foreign nationals who come here and break our laws, particularly those who create social disorder or violence in Canada, have no right to stay in Canada, and we as the government have an obligation to see that they are removed, I think much more promptly than they are.
I would encourage committee members to reflect on the public safety dimension of this issue, whether we're talking about Sri Lanka or any other country of origin, quite frankly.