I come across this in my constituency cases every now and then, very rarely I will say. Some people who claim on the basis of LGBTQ and subsequently it appears that they may not be from that community and that they were using that as an asylum-seeking avenue. Does the IRB have methods or training to determine that, in a sensitive manner, without treating people in a very condescending or similar manner? Are they trained to decipher between those who are just using it as an excuse perhaps to gain entry into Canada versus those who are genuinely from those communities and are persecuted?
On October 3rd, 2017. See this statement in context.