I'm trying to get to it as fast as I can.
Thank you very much, Chair.
This amendment would ensure that qualitative criteria are also considered in the designating countries, because we would like to see something that would look at the human rights record of the country.
Factors set out include, in section 96, a “well-founded fear of persecution”, and in section 97, risk of torture, risk to a person's life, or risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. These are all references to IRPA.
Relevant international human rights regulations set out the availability in the country in question of mechanisms for seeking protection and anything else set out through regulations.
What we are trying to do is build a little bit of a framework. As I said, it's very difficult to sit here and keep passing clause after clause without knowing how it's going to be operationalized. What this does is provide guidance. It is not limiting, because the minister can add to these ad nauseam and we would not object. It actually provides for a minimum of the kind of qualitative criteria that should be considered.