Yes. That is what I told Ms. Chow, who asked the same question. I said that we could not move forward with the bill if we did not speed up the process by taking into account people who come from democratic and safe countries, without the means to deal with the waves of bogus refugee claims of people from safe countries, because we will lose that absolutely essential balance.
I would remind you, Mr. Coderre, that you yourself, as minister, decided to not establish a refugee appeal division. Your government made that decision. As a result, today's unsuccessful claimants cannot access an appeal division. We are proposing to add an appeal division for the vast majority of refugees. According to the previous government's position, even nationals from North Korea and Iran could not access the Refugee Appeal Division. According to our proposal, all of those people would be eligible. I see that as progress.
Moreover, as a result of the reforms, one category of foreign nationals cannot even have a hearing to consider their applications. I am referring to U.S. nationals, pursuant to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States.
You are the minister who signed that agreement and who said that some foreign nationals would not even have access to a hearing. So I found your position somewhat inconsistent with regard to that section of the bill.