I don't know the history; I wasn't here. But one way or another, the history is beside the point. What is happening is that there are people affected by this.
And, Mr. Komarnicki, it is not a small number, because it is not coincidental that in this committee alone, of all the members of Parliament, there are several MPs who have actual cases of people being deported. In my riding, a person's status stopped on January 31, and two days later the police—the police, okay?—knocked on his door and said, “You have to go; we're going to deport you.” He and his wife were not there. This is a person who has been in Canada for 13 years.
So there are these situations, and they are not small in number. We're not talking about fraudulent applications; we're not talking about people who want to cheat the system. We're talking about giving 60 days. But why not just allow them an automatic stay? That doesn't send any message out.
You know what's delaying them? It's not because there are fraudulent applications; it's because of the backlog at the CIC.