It's not even so much an issue of somebody coming from a war-torn country or not; it's more about undiagnosed mental illness. It's an episodic illness. People may experience psychosis, which is a complete disconnect with reality; they may think and truly believe that something is happening and that they have to do something. For example, an individual might break into their neighbour's house believing that aliens told them to be there and that they're going to be harmed unless they go there. Well, that's a punishable offence and it makes a person inadmissible to Canada, essentially, under the current IRPA. Again, it's something that stems from symptoms of the mental illness that is not being treated.
Another thing I want to comment on is that under the conditions that are currently out there, people may slip with their treatment. Sometimes treatments do not work, medications may not work, they may not have access to a good psychiatrist, and, again, they may become symptomatic and commit crimes, or they may be picked up because they're being a nuisance. They may accumulate quite an extensive criminal history on paper, but it may be minor things such as panhandling or uttering threats while on the TTC, or whatever the situation may be. These don't make somebody a “serious criminal”, as would some of the other instances that were brought up by Ms. James and my colleague around some individuals out there.
I want to be very cognizant of how wide we're spreading the net and what the consequences would be. At this stage, we really don't know because we're not keeping that data. We don't understand the mental health issues and needs under the immigration system.