Citizenship and Immigration committee  That analysis has not been done. It would involve looking at how many unsuccessful leave applications the Federal Court is doing, how many hours the judges and their support staff are spending on average, and multiplying that by their salaries. It seems to me it's many millions o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we have a lot to be proud of in Canada. Whatever criticisms we have, when we put them in an international context we see that there are many positive features. A lot of our comments and criticisms are to build on what we have, which again has many excellent features. Thin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We didn't say in our brief that many members of the IRB are incompetent. What we said was there is scope for human error, and the wide variation in acceptance rates seems to confirm that the IRB, just as any institution, is open to human error. Improving the PRRA is one importa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be to eliminate it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the first part, implementing the refugee appeal division, you simply have to implement legislation that's on the books.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Moving the PRRA to the IRB would require reopening the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. I believe it's fair to say that would be the majority wish of the advocacy community. The Canadian Council for Refugees, in its presentation on IRPA, at the time was in favour of the PR

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think the obstacle is in the mechanism of it; it's in the legislative and political will. However, the first part is already on the books, so I would say it would be better to go ahead with the first part rather than wait for the other parts and do it all together.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It seems to me it requires reopening the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, because there are elements of delegation and so on. The whole structure is based on this being done by civil servants, as opposed to by the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As far as I understand, one and three were always intended to go together. That is, as soon as the refugee appeal division was to be implemented, the regulations were to eliminate a stay of removal after that, even if the person applied to the Federal Court.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I think you'd have to ask the ministers and the government. I could only guess that it may be some fear of a perception that we are adding another layer, where if it's not properly analyzed and described, the difficulty is there. I think if it is explained that, first of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I also want to be clear that I wasn't saying it has to be better explained to the ministers. I was saying you may have to ask the ministers why they didn't do it. I was speculating that it may be some fear of a perception that we're adding another layer and it has to be better

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I add one thing? In answer to your question from the point of view of the advocacy community, this has been enormously frustrating. If we go back to the implementation or even the drafting of IRPA 2002, there was an ongoing dialogue with the department, the minister, an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just like to add that the Canadian government, as I'm sure you know, at any given time suspends removals to some countries through moratoria. We feel this is a very good idea. We think perhaps some countries should be added. Right now, we have Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, Ms. Grewal, which concerns?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To my understanding, if it's the appeal division, then the position for the moment, from the last few ministers, is no. With regard to moratoria, a number of organizations have requested that it be added--and I gave the example of Colombia--but this has been turned down. I do