Thank you, Mr. Tilson, and thank you both for being here.
I'm intrigued to read, Mr. Milner, about your background and some of the work you've done in Burundi and other places. I've stood on the ground in Burundi, where I've seen internally displaced persons who have been moving year after year, first to Rwanda and then back to Burundi, in what seemed like hopeless and hapless circumstances. Through Food for the Hungry, a group I was involved with as the chair, funded in part by CIDA, this group is secure and in a successful potato farming industry.
What you're talking about can happen. It's great to know that you think Canada has had some influence in helping people on the ground in these places, as opposed to the only remedy being to open our doors to an insupportable number of people, all coming here.
Let me ask a couple of questions. Ms. Desloges, I pay tribute to you for the things you do, how you do them, and the people you help. You're not saying that all the decisions are going to go against the applicants because of the expedited timelines. You're just saying that the decisions are going to be made in what you think are inappropriate ways. Yet we heard from people in New Zealand just yesterday that they're able to process their refugee decisions in about 15% of the time that we're processing our refugee decisions.
Do you want to reflect on that? You did say that we all agree we should be expediting things. You think for some reason this timeframe is unsupportable. It doesn't mean it's going to run against the applicants. You just think it's going to be difficult for people to make decisions in that timeframe.