Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do have one thing. On a call centre, that number is only good in Canada, so if you're outside Canada you can't call it. You have to change that. You have to allow people around the world who are affected the right to call, because right now they can't even call. It just doesn't work.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, but it was bad legislation. It was very bad legislation that did this. All we're asking for now is equality of rights, equality of denial, and equality of restoration for the new citizenship act. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think every one of you got a packet with the Trinidadian solution. This could be amended to be a little bit better with the Australia solution. It's one paragraph, and you can read it to yourself. Basically, it just says that a person who has lost their citizenship due to the old provisions is deemed to have never lost it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have to make a comment on Barbara, because this is something that happened just this weekend. Barbara, was it a family member or a good friend?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The funeral of a very good friend was just on the other side of the border, but this woman was stateless and could not attend the funeral. Christine Eden here made a comment. She is so right. This is just going to escalate. It's going to be huge in the next few years. So fix it now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Barbara Porteous discovered last July that she was stateless. By the way, Magali Castro-Gyr was made stateless by this government. That was a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Canada was the country that put this into the United Nations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have two left.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was going to introduce these people as they came. The Benner case went to the Supreme Court of Canada. In a unanimous decision it was ruled that the 1947 Canadian Citizenship Act was indeed blatantly discriminatory. When I brought that up to the Senate of Canada in testimony, the bureaucrats at CIC, specifically Patricia Birkett, who was then the acting director general of the integration branch, came out one week later and said that decision was transitional and would expire in 14 weeks.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, they do. I was wondering if they would go on later, but they'd be more than happy. If we want to go with the war brides, we'll go with Mr. Taylor.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No problem.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the things I would like to mention is that there have been some really tough calls, on my part. I've dealt with so many people over the years. One of the hardest phone calls I ever had was calling Sheila, within days of her father's dying. Her father, who fought for this country, had one wish: to have his daughter reunited as a Canadian child before he died.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have about five or six.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm an airline pilot. This is so basic: you know, our weather in Hong Kong is pretty bad, we're down to one engine, and we have several hours to fly. What do you think we should do? Well, let's press on. Come on, folks, this is common sense. If I were sitting in a cockpit with a guy sitting next to me, it doesn't matter what his political persuasion is, or his religion.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have to apply and—