Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment is to ensure that DFNs can obtain travel documents by deeming a designated foreign national, whose claim for protection is accepted, to be lawfully staying in Canada. I really want to quote something that was shared with us by Donald Galloway on May 3, in which he tells us that:
Clause 16 tells us that only permanent residents should be given a travel document. I imagine this is because we are concerned about granting refugee status to individuals and then granting them a travel document and, lo and behold, they expose an affront to the system, if you like, by returning to their country of origin.
The single point I'll make at this stage is that this is not the way the system currently works. A travel document to be given to a refugee is not—I repeat, not—valid for that person to return to their country of origin. That is the law as it currently exists. I think that is being forgotten [in this clause].