Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses.
Professor Liew, I'd like to start with you. In your presentation you made it very clear that Canada should suspend the safe third country agreement, indicating that what's going on in the United States is not safe for asylum seekers. You cited cases and examples of people who came through the official ports of entry and were turned back, and the grave situations they were in.
The United States currently has a policy in place that rejects asylum seekers who claim asylum on the basis of gang and domestic violence. From your knowledge, would you say that those are valid reasons to say that the United States is not a safe country for asylum seekers?