It's interesting to note that in the Balanced Refugee Reform Act the criteria were quite different. They were much more extensive in terms of human rights criteria. What's more, there was to be, in the law that's supposed to go into effect on June 29, an expert panel of human rights experts to advise the government, based on very extensive criteria. Now the criteria have been watered down for some reason, and the government, in this bill, has seen fit to disband that committee of human rights experts.
I note that The Globe and Mail has been very critical of that, as have, of course, human rights groups and lawyers groups across the country. It's surprising. I wonder what the government is afraid of, since it is disbanding a group of human rights experts.
I note that in the European community, they have a provision of safe countries of origin, but there is an extremely stringent degree of criteria on human rights standards listed in it. We are all concerned that this provision allows the government to put commercial interests and political interests before lives and human rights.