Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd answer on two levels. First of all, we do recognize that we have to do a better job in terms of informing parents or prospective parents to make sure that they understand the implications of both approaches. There are in fact some advantages of the current approach, because

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, again, I think the original reason was the comparison in terms of being born abroad, whether born abroad to Canadian parents or foreign. We had to have that comparability. Of course, the government is still reviewing the adoption case, as we mentioned, in terms of I think t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll ask my experts, who can explain it better than I can in terms of plain language.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there would not be, and the reason is that the amendments we've been working on in Bill C-467 would essentially make it align with Bill C-37. In addition, within Bill C-37 there's something called a coordinating amendment. Basically, should Bill C-37 come into effect after Bi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. We have noted your questions. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, as long as one parent—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure. I think we'll have to get back to you on that in terms of what group came in under permanent residence versus what group came in under the direct grant of citizenship.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. The two different cases are obviously treated differently. What I don't have with me is information in terms of whether the kids who came in under Operation Stork came under the direct grant of citizenship provision or came in under a permanent residence one. But obviously if

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do have information on our website that tries to provide information on that. We're trying to revise that information to make it friendlier to prospective parents of adopted children. We're even doing things like scenarios to help people—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, there is I think a qualitative difference in the sense that somebody who is working for the government abroad is working daily on issues that are affecting Canada or Canadians, whether they be consular, immigration, trade, or military issues, or whatever. So you have that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The starting point is obviously that when crown servants go abroad, they are directly serving Canadians, whether it be in trade, in a consulate, in immigration, in development assistance, in our military, or in anything like that. The nature of the work they do has a very direct

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We haven't really seen that. When we look at the current bill as well as the provisions of Bill C-37 that are aimed at the crown servants and that have the first generation--we're essentially looking at New Zealand and the U.K.--we see that it's really focused on the crown servan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, in the practical sense, I think, if they're working at our embassy or at a military office abroad, generally people would know that this person has been born. It's a small enough community that people would generally know, so the risk of fraud is probably a bit less than i