The amendment would permit the power to designate parts of a country or classes of nationals in a country. Currently the minister can only designate a country, the way the language is written. This amendment would allow something further than that.
Once again we have very serious concerns about the power resting with the minster to designate countries. There are groups within those countries that feel persecution. There are very few countries in the world that we can say are absolutely free of the kind of persecution that makes people escape and look for asylum.