Citizenship and Immigration committee  The review that this person will be leading will take the scope of it into account, so the chairperson will take advice from this person on how far the review should go.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's hard to speculate on the particulars, even hypothetically, because every case could be very different from the other cases. Once a person has been removed, there are other avenues by which a person may return to Canada. Also, when there is a negative decision, there are a lot of people who do not get removed, even though they have had a “no”, because they are either involved in other immigration processes or the system is going through the proper steps with respect to that person's case.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, these were immigration appeal files. Mr. Bourbonnais was a board member on the Immigration Appeal Division, so these were not refugee claims that he was sitting on. There were just under approximately 900 files that Mr. Bourbonnais sat on at the board. The review was undertaken to see whether or not, on the record—and by the way, IAD hearings are in public and the files are accessible to the public—the evidence that was presented would reasonably support a decision that was made.