Sure, absolutely.
I am in agreement that we need to improve the bill. There are a lot of positive aspects in the bill, and I think we share a common concern in creating a faster system. Many refugee claimants don't want to be waiting months, a year, a year and a half, or two years to get an answer. Creating a faster system benefits everybody.
But there is such a thing as too fast, and it could lead to more costs, because if you're not creating a high first-level decision-making system then a lot more decisions are going to be overturned on appeal or go to appeal, and it's going to make it more costly. Also at the same level, if you're setting dates for refugee hearings too early and evidence isn't gathered in time and you have to wait for more evidence, you're wasting the time of the IRB.
I feel that the system being proposed is going to be more costly if you just schedule hearing dates that are inevitably going to be postponed because there is not enough time to translate documents, gather documents from overseas, and prepare the case properly. Enough money has to go into the system in order to speed it up with--