Thank you for the question.
I do want to acknowledge the work that you're doing at your border and a given number of border crossings in your communities and the area you represent.
Bill C-12 by itself doesn't necessarily change the process by which individuals, either through regular ports of entry or through irregular ports of entry, come into Canada. What this does is.... There does appear to be a loophole, as Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe indicated, on the 14 days. It merely clamps down and makes that exemption within the Safe Third Country Agreement.... It nullifies that and ensures that those who are coming in through the regular ports of entry have to file a claim right away.
Notwithstanding their ineligibility, they will get a pre-removal risk assessment, which is a very different process from a referral to the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Most experts and most refugee advocates would suggest that the IRB is well placed for refugee determination, whereas we're of the belief that, in line with our obligations to the Refugee Convention of 1951, the hearing will be part of the pre-removal risk assessment, which is a very different type of process.
There is some tightening of regulation that will enable us to streamline these processes.