Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Boekhoven, when my colleague Mr. Oliphant was talking about this terrible case of the Sudanese family that's been languishing for over 10 years in a refugee camp after escaping the war in Sudan, you made a comment in regard to the processing of refugees that I found quite telling. Your wording was that the numbers are in excess of our needs.
What's worrisome about this is that in the case of refugees, I would think that the determinations would be the needs of the refugees. Are they in harm's way? Are their lives in danger? What is the condition of the camps that they are languishing in? There is a spectrum of conditions in those particular camps.
So there are two parts. Could you please answer, number one, how do you establish your quotas on refugees, and is it politically determined here in Ottawa for you?