As far as I know, all of the experience of refugee law agrees that we don't have a good system to appoint or to screen or to select board members. Everybody, even the Conservative Party, agrees that we have to improve the system. The difference is, or the problems are, how they believe it is to be improved.
The last modification the Conservatives did to the selection of board members, when they basically reduced the independence of the committee that nominates the board members, goes in the opposite direction and creates more problems in terms of the political influence of the party in government to decide on the members of the IRB, which is totally wrong. We have to go in the opposite direction. We have to create a full technical review of the board members and select based only on the merits and experience they have in deciding these cases. We will have a wonderful institution that is run with fewer problems in terms of the decisions they make, and it will be less influenced by the political estates of the minister of immigration at any moment--for example, using the bogus claims from Mexico. The political appointee of the IRB is deciding at this particular moment that all of the cases from Mexico are bogus, and therefore the rate of acceptance for Mexican cases, even though the country conditions are totally different, is going down every single day.