Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not sure I heard a question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it was.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure, I may ask Eric, as the legal--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Eric, do you want to answer the specific question about the interplay between the Federal Court and the RAD?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's right. I'd also add that we now know more about the system and how it's working than we did in 2002 when RAD was initially proposed. I think you can make the case that some of the public stakeholder issues around RAD at the time.... We didn't have a lot of split de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I joined the department two years ago.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I know that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's right. Without trying to get drawn into a conversation about what happened in 2002, some pretty significant questions would need to be answered before there could be a coherent implementation of the RAD in terms of who's eligible. Committee members need to be ful

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's absolutely right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to try to separate a formal government position on this. I think ministers are on the public record on this question, but there is no question that piecemeal change is problematic, and piecemeal change that we haven't thought through in terms of transition absolutely. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before I answer that question, Micheline has also emphasized that there's a whole series...and you can ask the IRB, when they testify later this morning, about their own set of rules. They have a regulatory process, but also they rule through the IRB, and that would take time. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's the interplay of ensuring that you have.... It's a series of apples and oranges, and theoretically, yes, but the practice is that you match the appeal mechanisms to.... You'd want a coherent package, a comprehensive package.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It could, but I'm not sure it would apply to the provisions that are contained in the current Bill C-280. There's an assumption that there's a perfect match and the provisions of section 73, as they apply to IRPA, can be applied to Bill C-280. The advice I'm getting is that they