Finance committee  If it's 3% and it's a matter of life or death for them, I'm not sure why the government insists on proceeding with this. The whole point here is that there is no due process as it is understood under the existing PRRA. The United Nations high commissioner's representative's remar

Finance committee  Some of it.

Finance committee  If it only affects 3%, but it could be a matter of life and death for that 3%, why are you doing it at all?

Finance committee  Well, that—

Finance committee  When you say “section 16”, I don't know which provision you mean exactly.

Finance committee  You don't need it. There is a system in place for this. It's the Immigration and Refugee Board's refugee protection division. They are getting better. There is significant improvement in how they process their claims. If the concern is delay and inefficiency, they're working on t

Finance committee  They are sent back to their country of origin.

Finance committee  That is correct.

Finance committee  That's correct. If he had made a refugee claim in the United States, he would, under this system, only have access to a pre-removal risk assessment before people who are not independent, not expert, not trained and, at least under the present law and the law proposed, have no obl

Finance committee  Under current law, there is an appeal from a refugee protection division hearing to the refugee appeal division. There is no appeal to the refugee appeal division for a pre-removal risk assessment. The most one can do is to apply for what's called judicial review, but you need le

Finance committee  It certainly creates classes of refugee claimants: those who are deemed worthy of a proper, full and fair refugee hearing, and those who are not. As I explained, those who are not and who are relegated to the PRRA process, are not mainly, or even probably, those who have entered

Finance committee  Thank you. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to the committee. This is my first appearance, and I hope that I [Technical difficulty—Editor]. Can you hear me?

Finance committee  I will focus on two aspects of Bill C-97 touching on immigration. The first, starting at clause 305 of Bill C-97 is the diversion of a subset of refugee claimants from the Immigration and Refugee Board's refugee determination process to a pre-removal risk assessment. This applie