Mr. Chair, I'm going to move that Bill C-31 in clause 60 be amended by replacing lines 1 and 2 on page 29 with the following:
(b.1) subject to subsection (2.1), less than three days have passed since their claim for
To put it into context, Mr. Chair, it expedites timelines for claimants from DCOs and no access to the RAD for designated foreign nationals or claimants from DCOs. It is necessary to remove the 12-month bar—we've had some discussion already on that particular issue—for a rejected claimant to request pre-removal risk assessment.
I'm going to refer to comments by Sean Rehaag, a graduate from Osgoode Hall. He said the system is robust, as the criminal justice system is. It does have errors, and there are appeals or checks in place to help mitigate them. Clearly, then, in less than robust systems there will also be errors, so we do need to have adequate checks in place. This is something we thought might be adequate for us to look at, at least better than what was being proposed earlier. So compared to the alternative, I think this is something that could be supported.