Yes, I have two points to make.
One is that we know where this came from. This was a private member's bill moved by a backbench Conservative, Mr. Chisu, almost in form and all its substance. The Conservatives can't deny it. He decided not to show up in the House of Commons to debate it. Then they take this through the back door channel and bury it in the midst of a 460-page omnibus bill.
The government can't wash their hands of this one. There are national standards that have application to deny any province from having a prohibition on minimum residency. Those standards, if this motion is passed, if this bill is passed as it is, will be abolished. There will be no national criteria. Now provinces will be free to do something that the provinces have thankfully claimed that they don't want to do, which is to deny refugee claimants social assistance.
If the provinces don't want to do it and all the charities that deal with refugees say this is a bad idea, then you have to ask, what is the motivation of the government to do something like this? It is obviously a back door way to get through a private member's bill that the member himself was too embarrassed to show up to debate.
Here we have it; this is the way legislation is done.