The safe third country agreement, as the minister knows, predated the Trump administration. One might argue that during that period it was some of the worst times for people trying to get to safety in the United States. It predated the Trump administration. The U.S. has a mandatory detention policy upon arrival for asylum seekers. That was also in place prior to the Trump administration. The practice of detention for asylum seekers is deeply rooted in the core system of the U.S. immigration and refugee system. We cannot lose sight of the fact that the culture that they built up with ICE there is not going to go away overnight, even with the Biden administration.
This is the reality right now. Really, some of these asylum seekers are faced with an impossible situation. There are people who are faced with detention. There are people who are being sent back to the country of origin to face the dangers from which they had been trying to flee.
Given that this is the reality, if the minister says he wants to address the issue and he's sympathetic and compassionate, is it his view that he will never raise the question of even just suspending, if not doing away with, the safe third country agreement with the United States?