Mr. Speaker, without reference to any particular cases, we already have what the UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls one of the most fair and generous refugee determination systems in the world. It is a system with an acceptance rate for asylum claims that is twice as high as in comparable democracies, such as France and Britain.
This government has acted to fill vacancies in the IRB, now at about 94% of its full occupancy. Last year we welcomed over 20,000 refugees to this country, including those whom we brought from UN camps abroad, like the 5,000 Karen refugees who we are bringing from Burma.