I am in full agreement with that person. I know that we are not here to talk about the refugee status determination system, but, time and time again, we are presented with the fact that it sometimes takes 40 or 50 months to deport someone who has been denied asylum. My personal experience, and the experience of the members of our group, is that we often waited 15 months, for example, before being called to a pre-removal risk assessment.
The same thing goes for crime. The Canada Border Services Agency can conduct a triage to prioritize the sensational cases. A little earlier, we were talking about those sensational cases. It seems to me that all those cases are already covered by the two-year rule. Right now, there is a rule saying that, with a sentence of two years or more, there is no right to an appeal. So I imagine that serial killers, for example, had no right to an appeal, because they had already been sentenced to more than two years.
We are concerned that the threshold is going to be very low from now on. Earlier, I gave the example of someone breaking into his neighbour's house. Under section 348 of the Criminal Code, breaking and entering with intent to commit theft can result in a life sentence. If you break into a shopping centre to steal some DVDs, you can get up to ten years. But now, if you get six months, you can no longer have humanitarian grounds.
I feel that everyone agrees that foreign criminals should be deported as quickly as possible. The question is to define what constitutes a serious crime. As my colleague Rivka said, when we look at similar cases…