I would underline your point by remarking that the decision before the Immigration and Refugee Board, when a claimant appears before them, is quite possibly the only decision that is made by a Canadian tribunal where you are potentially deciding on the death or life of the person, because the consequences of a wrong decision can be, and in some cases are, death for the person that is refused. So this is an incredibly important decision.
One asks one's self, how is it that we can be allowing that decision to be made by one person without an appeal on the merits, when trivial matters are subject in Canada to appeal on the merits? The only conclusion that many of us can reach is that it is showing a lack of respect for the lives of those refugees, those people who are asking for our protection.