There are serious advantages to the category, and I think my friends have articulated that need, particularly for LGBTI claimants. Without a doubt, there are some people for whom leaving their country is actually more dangerous than staying in their country. The ability to have a mechanism that can identify people who are at risk within their country is absolutely critical. Canada was viewed as a leader when it introduced the concept of a source country program, because it really does fall outside of the remit of a refugee program. There's no effective and easy tool currently that helps to identify people in that situation. In the course of the work that we do, we work with many human rights defenders: lawyers, journalists, people who are in hiding and can't leave.
The challenge in the program is finding adequate referral agents, organizations, individuals, that have the capacity, the willingness, and the ability to determine who of those source country individuals are most vulnerable, because I think the criteria of most vulnerable still always has to apply. I think the challenge they're in is actually finding the referral agency and the screening of the applications, but I don't think that should be a barrier to the introduction of such a program. It need not be geographically based. I think the suggestion that I heard, where it could be open and flexible to countries where there is a need, is an important one.