All right, colleagues, I move that Bill C-12 be amended by adding, after line 30 on page 32, the following new clause:
75.1(1) Paragraph 153(1)(a) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is replaced by the following:
(a) are appointed to the Board by the Governor in Council following a merit-based and open competitive process, to hold office at pleasure for a term not exceeding four years, to serve in a regional or district office of the Board;
(2) Section 153 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):
(1.1) The Minister must publish, once a year, the selection criteria used to make appointments under paragraph (1)(a) and a summary of the results of any appointment processes.
Colleagues, we should have just passed an amendment to add more merit-based hiring to the IRB. This would further depoliticize or seek to depoliticize the IRB process and ensure that there are merit-based hires. Given the strain that the immigration system is under right now, this is, I think, a sorely needed amendment. I hope that you will support it.