I think that Bill C-11 was a good comprehensive reform for the problems associated with the refugee protection system, but it was not sufficient to deal with the particular threats from the big human smuggling rings.
We need to have access to various tools. For example, in the area of visas, there has been a decline since 2008 in the number of refugee protection claims filed in Canada: from 38,000 to about 19,000, this year, and that is largely because of the visa requirement instituted in June 2008.
So there is not just one solution to the problems we're facing. Yes, a more efficient, speedier system, like the one we adopted in one sitting, is useful, as a general rule. But I don't think it is necessarily useful for the people who are prepared to pay $50,000 to come to Canada illegally.
[Inaudible--Editor] that these people are necessarily going to claim refugee protection.
As I said, in terms of the arrival of the Fujian vessels 10 years ago, they weren't really people looking for refugee protection, they were clearly actually people looking for jobs.