So that members of the committee understand it, if we do that, we are in essence returning to a status quo in which two people arrive in Canada, both under sponsorship agreements. One receives citizenship a couple of years ahead of the other. One is therefore a citizen and the other is not. They will not be treated equally, and they are not treated equally under the present system.
If you vote against this, you are voting for unequal treatment of those two people. What we are attempting to do here is equalize the treatment so that a person who becomes a Canadian citizen is treated the same way as a person who is a landed immigrant, and vice versa.