But you got different answers every time you talked to them.
Well, I've been dealing with them all my life. I'm 52 years old, and I tried to get back into this country in 1972 when I was 18 years old. I was turned away at the border and told I was not welcome here. That's the way it has stood for me all my life.
The consistency is that CIC doesn't know what they're talking about, and lots of people have been given the wrong answers. Today the Government of Canada is making the individual responsible when in fact it was the Government of Canada that made the mistakes.
There is a very simple solution. It's one paragraph in Trinidad. They could come in with a paragraph 3(1)(f) in the current act and basically end this almost overnight. I went into Ed Komarnicki's office a while back and said we could make the Taylor case go away with a subsection 5(4), but this government persisted and put him in court. But they got something they never bargained for; they lost bigger than they ever imagined. And they're going to lose even harder if they continue pressing forward, because in British law, the 1947 Canadian Citizenship Act was not legal.
So we have to go forward, pick up the chips, rewrite the Citizenship Act, and make it charter-compliant for everybody. We start with a paragraph 3(1)(f) and make the Taylor case go away. We get promises...we can't even get promises; promises don't work with politicians. We have to redo a Citizenship Act that everybody can agree with that is charter-compliant. There's your problem. We have three separate classes of Canadian citizens in this country right now.
I'll take any questions, but that's the gist of where I'm coming from.