Let me just say that a large number of recent nominations that I've brought forward to cabinet have been accepted. We're now operating at about 90% occupancy among members of the IRB. That should help address the backlog. We need to look more broadly at inland refugee reform. For instance, last year we received over 10,000 inland refugee claimants from Mexico, who are facing a 90% rejection rate at the IRB. I think we need to ask whether that's an efficient use of our resources and whether that's creating problems for the IRB and legitimate refugees by allowing false refugee claimants to clog the system.
On March 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.