Mr. Chair, as you know, the lack of an appeal is the area that caused me the most grief. For a long time the New Democrats thought that every applicant should have the right to appeal. I'm glad we see the Refugee Appeal Division will be created in this bill. Until this amendment, the last few words of the clause said they may not have the power to appeal.
The motion in front of us removes that, which means that every individual, no matter which country they are from, will have a full-fledged hearing, and they will not be treated differently from anybody else. They will also have a complete appeal to officers who are trained to hear their cases. That gives me comfort that these claimants, whether they are gay or lesbian in so-called safe countries or people leaving honour killings, etc., will have the full protection as a refugee claimant under the law. The only difference is they will have the Refugee Appeal Division hearing a bit faster than those who are not, and that doesn't trouble me that much. If they fail on these two grounds, I can't see any reason why they should have.... If they then apply to the Federal Court, I can't see why we should stop the deportation during the application. So I'm okay with that, because they have full hearings and full appeals.
There is a series of motions I might as well talk about that I had already introduced--