Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here with us today.
I have helped people who have been subject to a removal order a number of times, even though they have been in the country for a long time. We sometimes manage to get them off the plane, literally. It's happened to me. In some cases, it took three, four or five years to process their asylum claim.
We often talk about the difficulty asylum seekers have in finding housing and accessing legal aid, as well as the difficulties related to funding for the organizations that look after them.
Instead of trying to put out fires all the time, shouldn't we be looking at processing times for asylum claims? Isn't that the crux of the problem, at the core?
If we managed to reduce those delays in order to reach a threshold that makes sense, wouldn't that solve a lot of problems?