So there could in fact be many more cases that have been resolved through the normal channels of the department in the past years.
I want to ask specifically about the border babies. It seems to me that this is an interesting situation, with people who happened to go to the nearest hospital to have their child. Sometimes that was across the border. The border wasn't always taken as seriously as it is today. Are there any special measures in place to assist those people in proving their Canadian citizenship? The only time they may have spent in the United States was the moment of their birth and however long it took to get released from that hospital, yet from what you said earlier, you're saying they are American citizens, not Canadian citizens. They would have to go through the entire process of applying for permanent residence status and then applying for citizenship.
Is that the case in those circumstances?