Pre-removal risk assessment applications are made in the context of a removal process that has already commenced. The Canada Border Services Agency has made certain arrangements for the potential removal of the person, subject to the outcome of the application. It is simply a matter of keeping the process as streamlined as possible. Instead of having oral hearings in these cases, which would be exceptional, I would think, and/or delivering decisions orally in some other way, the practice will be to continue that and have the decisions transmitted to the person at an interview with the Canada Border Services Agency, as is the practice today on decisions by delegates of a minister.
On June 1st, 2010. See this statement in context.