Thank you.
Certainly, eliminating access to the humanitarian and compassionate process for people such as war criminals and those involved in crimes against humanity inter alia would reduce the volume of applications, and that would help speed up processing for the legitimate immigrants who may be facing removal for much less serious reasons.
My view on this, Ms. James, is simply that Canada is a very compassionate country, but there should be limits to our compassion. I don't think we should extend this notion of compassionate consideration to war criminals, and that's essentially the rationale for the amendment.
I was shocked when I learned this too. I couldn't quite believe it. For me, it reflected a whole lot of problems that had built up in our system, this erring very significantly on the side of the rights of even the most serious kinds of criminals, as opposed to Canada's national interest.