Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are about 11,000 children in Quebec who report that they were born outside and think of themselves as Canadian at birth.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are 100,000 in Canada, so I don't think it's going to be much more than that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Tens of thousands at least.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good question, because we're seeing what we are right now only because of needs for passports. We're seeing lots of people for the first time applying for their certificates of citizenship. I've tried to get a ballpark idea in terms of bounding the problem. When we hear people saying there aren't very many, that there are only a few dozen, and then someone else says there are millions, I think it's useful to get some better measure than that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My guess would be tens of thousands.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. I've been very clear on that. The number that would actually have problems is certainly less than the number I'm giving you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They shouldn't.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if the word is “considerably”. I know it is less.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We don't have a marital history on any of these individuals.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's one of the major cautions, I think. When I define a demographic group, in the written part I said that the actual counts would be if every one of them has actually filed for citizenship, and then we'd see what happened. But I don't know, and I don't know anyone who does know what the proportion is of that group--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. I defined three groups. One group is--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, I don't know. I don't know anyone who does know, either, by the way.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There shouldn't be.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know their marital status at birth.