Mr. Speaker, I commend the member for Richmond Hill for his good work on this important issue.
Canadians understand that citizenship is predicated on loyalty. When individuals violently express their disloyalty to Canada, when they attack its troops, when they commit violent treason, when they commit acts of terror as we have unfortunately seen Canadians do in the last few months, that is a renunciation of their citizenship and the loyalty upon which it is predicated.
Most Canadians understand that that should have the consequence of resulting in the revocation of citizenship. I think most Canadians find it frankly bizarre that the NDP is going to the wall to defend the right of serious convicted terrorists to retain their Canadian citizenship.