Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is not clear to me. I don't know if that was clarified before the committee—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that would be the best way to proceed with cases that the agency considers to be unfounded. In my opinion, it is important that the roles remain clear. It is not the IRB's role to identify the cases in advance: it is the agency's. In fact, we are talking about a contradictor

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, at least in my opinion and in the opinion of many others. This is a part of the system that doesn't seem particularly problematic: 28 days is a reasonable time. You fill out a form. Some people do have trouble even with the 28 days, let alone the eight, but it seems to be wo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We find that equally baffling. The idea that you could not include what we call section 96 or section 97 factors--in other words, the refugee definition, section 96 of the law, or cruel and unusual punishment or torture, section 97--that you could not invoke them on an H and C, w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Bill C-11, as it's drafted, would do away with the PRRA for just about all refused claimants except those who were not removed within 12 months. But obviously the intention is to remove people within 12 months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's our understanding. There would be no mechanism for considering change of circumstances.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. It's very frightening that there could be a major change in circumstances and no mechanism in place to take that into account.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We really don't know how it would work. I have to say very honestly that many of us in the advocacy community are very baffled by the purpose of this interview. The practicalities my colleague Maître Côté has spoken to, and I agree completely, eight days is rarely enough for an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. I will skip over the short timeline and talk just about the H and C applications. We feel that Brihan's story represents the finest aspects of Canada's humanitarian tradition. When it comes to immigration, we feel it makes no sense to close off this important avenue. It's

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Merci, Stephan. Mr. Chairman, honourable members, thank you for this opportunity to appear before your committee. My name is Richard Goldman. As Stephan mentioned, I'm the refugee protection coordinator for the Table de concertation. I'm also the coordinator for the Committee t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You seem to be in complete agreement with almost everything we said, so I want to congratulate you on your excellent analysis.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's exactly what we are saying. The refugee appeal division should streamline the process, because—we said it once or twice before—by eliminating afterwards the stay to the Federal Court, it would reduce the incentive to apply to Federal Court and streamline the Federal Court'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's good.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have a statistical average. I can talk on the basis of real-world experience of seeing several dozen cases each year. Again, to recap, if a person applies to Federal Court, that will buy them about three months. Once the Federal Court is finished, or if they don't bother