Oh yes, it is from current practices, I'm sorry.
But this is reflective of legislation we introduced in the last Parliament. That's nothing new in Bill C-31. One of the most important aspects of the anti-smuggling provisions of Bill C-31 and its two prior bills is to indicate that if you get positive protection status as a smuggled migrant, having arrived as an irregular designated arrival, you will not get immediate permanent residency. Yes, you will have to wait five years for permanent residency.
One of the reasons we did this is from our having looked at the Australian experience. For several years they had what was called a temporary protection visa for smuggled migrants, during which period the number of smuggling boats that arrived in Australia went down dramatically. The moment they restored immediate permanent residency visas for smuggled refugees, the number of boats went up into the hundreds per year. So we thought this was the single, most effective way to dissuade people from paying smugglers to come to the country.