In my view, Bill C-31 actually will give enormous discretionary power to the minister who, in my opinion, will go beyond transparency and justification in order to obtain the desired result.
Let us not forget that a large percentage of claims from European countries, such as the Roma from Hungary, were accepted before people started making speeches characterizing them in advance as bogus refugees. After the political speeches from the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, the acceptance rate at the board went down. There is a direct cause-and-effect link between the minister's speeches and the panel's acceptance rate. Now, if you want to give him even greater discretionary power, how can it be presumed in any way other than that the rate will go down even more as a result of the political rhetoric?