We understand them very well.
I can tell you, when I became minister in October 2008, our officials briefed me on how they had spent years working on proposals to improve and reform our asylum system but how those proposals had never been pursued for political reasons.
Since that time, since 2008, I can tell you there has been relentless policy work and widespread consultation looking at international practices to come up with a system that's fast and fair. So yes, we understand the implications. The implications are very simple. The implication is that a bona fide asylum claimant under the new system will get protection within Canada in a couple of months—two to three months—as opposed to two years, and that fake claimants will be removed in less than a year rather than in four, five, or six years. The majority of claimants whose claims are initially rejected by the IRB will for the first time have a full fact-based appeal at the refugee appeal division.
So we do understand. The implications are that we will have a faster and fairer system, which, we are confident, will to some extent reduce the number of false claimants coming to Canada, particularly from designated countries.