I have a question for the Parkdale legal clinic. We've been talking about the importance of humanitarian and compassionate grounds. The proposal right now is to either go into the refugee stream, and if you do that, you will have no access to the humanitarian and compassionate grounds.... A lot of people, when they first arrive in the country, have no idea...let's say it's abuse, domestic violence, from Mexico, or whatever country. Can you perhaps describe why that element is not always clear cut and why there should really be humanitarian consideration, given that people still get deported even when the humanitarian considerations are being processed? It really has nothing to do with the whole backlog issue. But why is that important?
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