I think, particularly when they're privately sponsored, it's the sponsors who bring forward the candidates. This is the way it always was years ago, by the way. I'm not proposing something new. I'm proposing going back to the way it was before this UNHCR requirement was imposed. If you want to sponsor a refugee, if that's in your heart as something that you want to do and you're willing to put the money on the table, why should the taxpayer pay for it?
You bring forward the candidate, instead of waiting for an outside, external organization to feed us the candidates they think are the best ones to come to Canada. The officer assesses to make sure they are in fact genuine refugees. If they are, then they clear.
Take the blinders off; take the reins off the private sponsors. If they want to sponsor a million refugees, then let them. They're paying for it. I don't see the downside.