Mr. Speaker, the member just said bogus refugees in Sri Lanka. The member cannot prove that individual refugee claims that may have been placed years ago were bogus. People were accepted as refugee claimants, became landed residents and ultimately became Canadian citizens. They had the ability to travel and with different clans persecuting other clans, circumstances changed. Conditions do change.
If a person makes a refugee claim, is granted asylum as a refugee and immediately turns around and goes into the area where he or she had been persecuted, of course I do not condone that. In fact applications have been revoked for that very reason.
However, one cannot in perpetuity suggest that somehow a refugee claimant at one point in time is not permitted to travel to any other part of the country. A number of legitimate refugee claimants take their security into their own hands. It may be because they have to go back to bury their mother or father. They may want to go back to take possession of the homes and
properties that were confiscated when they were persecuted. There are a lot of mitigating circumstances and we should not draw blanket conclusions.