They could not understand, as people of European origin, why folks who can move around with full mobility in a space of 27 democratic countries would be coming to Canada, and Canada alone, to make asylum claims and why virtually none of the claimants actually show up for their hearings, almost all of them abandoning and withdrawing their own claims.
Ils ne comprenaient pas, étant eux-mêmes d'origine européenne, pourquoi des gens libres de se déplacer parmi 27 pays démocratiques voudraient demander l'asile au Canada, et au Canada seulement.