That's good to know. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'll resume from where I left off last time at the committee. I was just about to go into the work of Amnesty International. They undertook an observational fact-finding mission at the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba.
At that time, with the first Trump administration, which brought in the travel ban and all of their anti-immigration, anti-Muslim and anti-migrant worker policies, two researchers were sent to the border crossing to interview refugee claimants who had recently made the dangerous journey in frigid temperatures in order to bypass the Safe Third Country Agreement and be eligible to make an asylum claim in Canada.
The reason people had to do that was they were being forced to cross at irregular crossings. On crossing at irregular crossings, I know that some people, including the Prime Minister at one point, called it illegal, when in fact it isn't. I just want to make that clear as well, Mr. Chair.
People were trying to seek safety and, as a result of the Safe Third Country Agreement, they were—