Alistair MacGregor at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

You argued quite forcefully that, because of the executive orders there, the United States could not be considered safe for refugees. We have seen evidence of some refugees fleeing through -22° conditions, over several kilometres, to try to make it to Canada.

We've gone over the state of the legal aid system. Do you see a relationship between Canada's current ability to handle an increased caseload and what the federal government's decision was? Do you think the federal government saw that we'd not be able to handle any more than we're currently taking?