I would like to add that, within the first five days, asylum seekers have to undergo a medical exam, but it is only to make sure that they are not a danger to the public.
So people do have a medical, but it's simply to make sure they don't have TB, and if they do, there is a control. But it's not for any of these further questions.
It takes a long time to get a medical and psychological assessment, and not every doctor can do it. So it's just not possible.
In addition, as Maître Goldman pointed out, the Immigration and Refugee Board had agreed to give the transcripts of the hearing to the claimant in order for him or her to be able to make an appeal. Now, with the cutbacks, the new budgetary restrictions, the claimant is only going to get a CD recording—like a cassette, for the older people among us—of the hearing. Trying to prepare an appeal based on a CD, without seeing the paper evidence, is so horrendously impossible to think about. I think everyone should just put themselves in that situation.
Even now, when one tries to go to Federal Court, you have 15 days to submit your leave and then you have another 30 days to perfect your application. With an appeal, which could be the result of a terrible error, the need for an appeal, we have 15 days. It just boggles the mind to try to think of how you're going to do it properly. It's like saying you have it, but you don't.