I'm not sure if I expressed myself badly or if I was misunderstood. The current section 25 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act does not deal with refugee claimants, but rather with applications for permanent resident status on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, called HC applications.
You are proposing to amend this section by adding subsection 25(1.3) under which factors used to determine refugee status when considering a claim on humanitarian grounds are not to be considered. Why is there this exclusion, not in the refugee claim process but in the process for applying for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds? Do you not think that will create the opposite effect from that which you want? Will it not encourage people who might otherwise apply for residency on humanitarian grounds to choose instead the process for claiming refugee status, because those criteria will be taken into account?