Look, some of the situations you described I was confronted with as a member of Parliament, long before I held these positions. I took it upon myself, with certain colleagues, to reach out to representatives from the United States to voice my concern about some of the images that I had been seeing. I actually published a statement through social media at the time to voice some of my concern, as someone who cared deeply about the well-being and fair treatment of people.
However, we still need to look at the totality of the factors to determine whether the United States actually still has a functioning asylum system that allows people to make a fair claim. We're not just dealing with the folks who are making asylum claims along the southern border, but people who've travelled to the United States and have the potential to make a claim in the U.S., and who may instead choose to come to Canada.
We constantly reassess the situation to determine whether they meet the standards of the safe third country. I would point out as well that even when some of these policies are initially adopted, the U.S. court system still has the ability to make decisions, where a given administration may run afoul of a particular rule, to actually undo some of those policies that would have caused a particular country—