Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You're a good chair--fair.
Instead of going after those who are exploited, will you go after the criminals first? In other words, will you bring forward changes on the middle people, the consultants who are unscrupulous? Would you do that first, and remove those people from the system before you change the refugees' IRB set-up? Because if you don't do that, you can have a new system, but I'll guarantee you that those folks who are out there preying on the most vulnerable will continue to find loopholes, and they will again counsel people to put in bogus claims, etc.
So what is the priority? Is the priority to go after those who know the law and deliberately exploit it, or just to teach people to lie, or to go after those who really don't know the laws and who are just told that if they do this they could get into Canada and be able to...? In many cases, those people end up working for very low wages, and their status is in limbo and they are not necessarily having “a good time” because they are paying back the funds they owe those middle people.
At the end of the day, who actually gains from it? Not necessarily those who you're talking about, who are here trying to jump the queue or whatever. It's the middle people, who end up making $5,000, $10,000 per refugee claim.