We never asked the IRB to consider all the Copts to be qualified claimants. But we did ask the IRB to really do the research and find out about the genuine cases. These Christians, who are a Coptic people of Egypt, who are applying as refugee claimants, how can you consider them genuine? What kind of proof should you expect?
It's very unreasonable to say, “Show me a document”. Who is going to present you with a document that some Islamic group decided to kill you? They don't issue a decree in writing to do that. When they issue a fatwa, show me some document about the fatwa. From some cleric sitting in some mosque, moving uneducated mobs to go out there and break everything in their way, what kind of document do you expect to have? These are unreasonable expectations on the part of the IRB.
We are not saying that the 15 million Copts of Egypt need to immigrate to Canada or come as refugees, but for those who are applying here--and before your own eyes--we're asking them to be reasonable in assessing the evidence they are looking at. But the fact that they are either biased against them or they are uneducated...they don't have enough information about the Coptic plight and they make their own decision. It happened to Mr. Magdi Youssef when he was sent back. This is a valid example.
That's what we are asking for.