Yes.
We're very much interested in looking at how the system can be more efficient. There are many things that don't work very well in the system. One of the problems that has arisen is that there has been this development of more and more categories of people who are ineligible to make refugee claims, so they don't get before the Immigration and Refugee Board. But many of them may need protection, so you have to have some other kind of mechanism to review whether they need protection. That has been done through the pre-removal risk assessment. If you talk to people who know the PRA, pre-removal risk assessment, most will feel that it is not a great success. We certainly think we should try to consolidate our processes so we have something that is a much simpler way for all people who say they need Canada's protection, which is at the Immigration and Refugee Board.
One of the things, for example, we had recommended when this legislation came in is that rather than having the pre-removal risk assessment to see whether there is new information that needs to be considered, which means you have to open up a whole new file and whole new office, you simply have an opportunity for reopening to the Immigration and Refugee Board. They already have your file. They've said, in the case of a refused claimant, that you don't need protection, so they could take an application that says okay, this is the new evidence, and the Immigration and Refugee Board could simply see if this is enough that they should take a look at this or not. That would be something that would be much more efficient.
We have days' worth of suggestions. Unfortunately, we don't have time to go into them all this morning, but we would certainly welcome an opportunity to discuss all of these with representatives of the minister or of the government, to go into more detail with all of the suggestions that we have, in order to make the system both more efficient and also fair and to ensure Canada does meet its international obligations.
