Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could give a response to you later in writing, because I'm not very—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could give you a response in writing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will address my response to the—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was going to say that, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. I will do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's important that there is a right of appeal. Changes can happen at any time, as I mentioned in my earlier statement. It is up to us, up to the person who is interviewing, or up to the system to examine the changes that have taken place, for example, in the last five ye

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I fully agree with you. While we talk about not leaving it as an open-ended timeframe, it is important that you have a timely assessment that's undertaken, but that period should allow whoever is making the assessment to have gathered all the information or data in order to make

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Let me say that resettlement is not an obligation. There's no obligation on the part of any country to actually resettle people; it is an act of goodwill. We must remember that today, when we are talking about over 36 million refugees and persons of concern worldwide, where we ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Resettlement, as far as we try to take it forward, is where we think that resettlement has to be used as a tool for protection and where we think that resettlement is the only solution that could be applied in the case of a particular individual.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will say very quickly that we do not talk about economic refugees and we do not talk about climate refugees because the term “refugee”, by definition, is contained in the 1951 convention and means people are fleeing persecution in fear of their lives. Having said that, let me

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're referring to part of a country. There is a presumption here that there is an internal flight alternative, which may not necessarily be the case. Again, we come back to the main issue: Are we dealing with the protection of the individual or are we dealing with a system that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could ask my colleague to answer that, I will step in later. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My response is that there is nothing in the bill that is contrary to Canada's international obligations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we do not oppose the concept of safe country of origin. As I said in my statement, there are countries that have developed lists of safe countries of origin.