Justice committee  Thank you. I think we need to keep in mind that we're not talking about the age of approval; we're talking about the age of consent. Consent is a very basic act, and we're saying we don't want 14- to 16-year-olds to have the ability to have the legal capacity to consent at all.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My three points are not exhaustive, and I think one of the major tasks before this committee is to enumerate where we want to draw that line. The three things I was pointing to were birth in Canada—these are just basic principles of international law—descending from Canadian pare

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In our submissions, we deal a little bit with the situation of making these decisions based on whether or not you're born in or out of wedlock. I'm not sure whether you meant people who have been adopted out of the country and who were born here and then left. Our basic submissi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would urge the committee to take a look at that part of our brief in particular. Our recommendations are in bold, the first one being that current acts done by the ministry need to be charter compliant. In turning people away based on the gender of their Canadian parent, the le

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have any information as to what people in that situation are told. I would say, though, given the nature of the subject matter before us, that I think there's a real benefit to having simple rules--born in Canada, you're a Canadian; once a Canadian, always a Canadian; tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From what I understand from the testimony, there are many points of first contact, and the ministry has committed the special task force to help deal with some interim problems. The way in which the members of that task force need to see what they're doing is this. We have peopl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I understand that our written submissions have arrived and are before you as of this morning. I apologize for our tardiness, but I hope you have a chance to review them. I'm going to use what little time we have in order to outline our key recommendations and hopeful