Citizenship and Immigration committee  Let me just add that in Montreal, Amnesty is involved with a number of NGOs, and next week there will be a public meeting that I believe the CCR will be attending. People are very concerned. We have been mobilizing people not only in Amnesty but in the other NGOs that are deali

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that Mr. Bossin is better able to answer that question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. We want to thank the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration for giving us the opportunity to share our concerns about Bill C-11, which is very important to people seeking asylum in Canada. We have only one presentation, but Mr. Bossin will speak on beha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As regards prevention, we've suggested that workers' representatives sit in more on these meetings between government and employers. Then everyone would be aware of the same things, which could help prevent abuses.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is that for the refugee system also?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In that case, do I have all day?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the refugee system, I believe numerous groups have appeared before this committee and have made suggestions. This committee has made recommendations to government last May or June, in 2007, which the government declined to accept, saying the system was not broken. I believe t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I just ask, do you have a sense, not in terms of necessarily our recommendations but in terms of the PRRA process, of how long you will be in analyzing it and seeing if there are some changes you could do, or if you're going to leave it as is, or recommend that it...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's possibly the only option people have. I'm sorry, what was your last statement?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But it's not. You said that people look at the IRB decision and think maybe a mistake was made, but they don't do that. The say, “The IRB found this person to be not credible, therefore we don't believe anything the person says”. In answer to either Madame Faille or to Mr. Gravel

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Have some ministers not said it would be too costly? In looking at that one aspect and not looking at what the downstream effects would be if you have to pay here but you're saving down there, it comes to the same thing. It is certainly one of the reasons that has been given.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In my opinion, these people are very well intentioned. Those that I have met—I do not know many—want to do their work well, but they do not have enough experience or enough life experience. I have the impression that they have learned a lot of fine theory at university, but, once

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure it's a matter of countries. It's the persons and what has happened to them in their country of origin—and there are many, many countries where human rights are violated. But it is specific to a person and to his or her country as such. It depends, obviously, on what

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I could add something here. People who are frightened for their lives or for their safety are returned to their country of origin and only 1% to 3% are at risk? It seems to me that someone looking at it logically would ask themselves, “Well, we might find 20% or 30%, bu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Quebec is at the bottom of the pile. I seem to recall, in recent statistics, having seen that, for PRRA, western Canada seems to have a higher acceptance rate, particularly B.C. Richard, you have more recent statistics.