Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I say one thing? When the minister comes, ask her if there is a backlog of humanitarian and compassionate applications overseas. If she says there is and it's not family class, ask her if it's the wives and children or the husbands of the people who are doing the sponsoring.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was just going to say that I think they're power-hungry. It's coming from the bureaucrats. I think if they see an opening where they can move in, use the backlog as an excuse--because this isn't going to cover the backlog, this amendment--then they jump on it. Because there is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I probably won't take the full seven minutes. Lorne and I think alike on a lot of these issues, and I agree with everything Lorne has said. There are three points I want to add with respect to this proposed legislation. One is that the proposed changes to section 11 of the Immi