Mr. Cryer was director of development for New Connections Ministries, he's director of public policy with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and his studies are in religious education. I did not see from his curriculum vitae that he has a tremendous amount of experience in working in the field of refugees.
You and I know that right now there's only one person, one board member, who would interview these refugees. Some board members would approve 80% of the people they interview and others approve maybe 10% or less, a very small percentage. So really, the life and death of a refugee, whether the person will get sent back home facing torture or even death, is really in the hands of one board member. If this board member makes a wrong decision, this person really, because the system right now has no appeal process.... There's no refugee appeal division. Even though Parliament has said over and over again that we must have one, it hasn't been implemented, so as a result these board members have tremendous power as to whether to say yes--like 80% saying yes--or saying no, and then out of the 80% or 90% who get rejected there might be a few who get deported.
Mr. Cryer, for example, in the CV that was in front of us, doesn't seem to have any experience or extensive experience in being a judge, being a lawyer, or anything of that nature. So how could he be justified as a board member?