Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The challenge we see with this is that the bill, as worded, talks of visas and documents, but it doesn't speak to admissibility, which is ultimately the heart of how we enforce the IRPA. My colleague, Mr. Bush, can speak more to that.
This government passed Bill S-8 in 2023, which introduced a new inadmissibility provision that covers all of the sanctions legislation. That's the Sergei Magnitsky Law, as well as the Special Economic Measures Act, which makes people who are sanctioned inadmissible to Canada.
If we were to deny a visa.... Suppose, looking at this list of relatives, we were to miss somebody somehow. For example, H is a foreign national who resides permanently with the foreign national in question. They could come to Canada, and we would lack an ability to enforce against that person because that person wouldn't actually be inadmissible under the IRPA. As a result, we would propose that sanctioning these individuals through the sanctions legislation would be a more effective tool to prevent their travel to Canada.