You bring up a very good point.
First of all, congratulations on joining the committee. That's exciting.
There are significant issues here. One thing we're trying to identify and are working on in this regard is the numbers involved; we're not sure, because every case has to be looked at individually to determine eligibility.
If there is a significant “attachment”, as we call it, to Canada--a demonstration that people have lived here a large portion of their lives, have contributed to the workforce, have a reason to be part of Canada or to consider themselves tied to Canada--then we consider the use of subsection 5(4), which is how we granted citizenship to the 33 original ones.