Thank you.
In terms of the provisions that are in this bill, it was never the government's intent to provide the refugee appeal division right to claimants who are in the previous system. This was due to a drafting error in which a subsection that was brought into force on August 15 brought the whole section into force. That created a four-month period where claimants in the old system would have access to the refugee appeal division. That's what we are aiming to correct in this particular bill.
In terms of the claimants in the old system and the ones who are coming from a designated country of origin, the one principle that hasn't changed in Canada is that every claimant, irrespective of the country they come from, will have access to an independent hearing at the IRB and will continue to have access to judicial review by the Federal Court. That is not changing.
In terms of designating country of origin, you're quite right. It's the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration who designates, but the legislation that was approved by Parliament indicates that there are some boundaries in terms of how this should be done. In terms of looking at a country that does not generally produce refugees, what we look at are the data of the acceptance rates and refusal rates of the IRB over the last three years, and so—