Okay, I understand.
The bill deals with a pretty specific issue. It does not cover a whole lot of cases, but all the same, the committee has already studied it.
Why has the department never considered, in previous reforms, the bill before us today or some other measure, making the residence requirement much more important when granting citizenship, rather than focusing almost exclusively on the place of birth requirement, as is the case right now?
We have seen other countries take the residence requirement into account when determining whether to pass on citizenship by descent. Canada does not take that requirement into consideration. Why did the government exclude that consideration?
Do you think that is something the committee should pursue further?
At the end of the day, could we not solve all those cases simply by giving more weight to the place of residence, without having to worry about who the person's employer was while they were abroad?