Right.
I talked with one of the bureaucrats back here, and he assured me that Ms. Jennings is Canadian. There is one section in a CIC document that says quite clearly that if you are born in Canada to a non-citizen father and a citizen mother, you are not Canadian. So it is subject to interpretation. But never should Ms. Jennings or anybody else have their citizenship put in question. This is a pretty common-sense issue.
By the way, when it comes to that, we talked a great deal about remedies, such as subsection 5(4). They don't work, because for children such as me, my citizenship was stripped away based on the 1948 act. But the remedy they're giving me is out of the 1977 act. In 1947, it says that any child like me can come up to Canada at any time by age 21, and they will grant citizenship. I did that, and they didn't give it to me. Then it says that with special circumstances, anytime in your life you can come back and the minister must give citizenship. Guess what? They're ignoring that.
So this case-by-case subsection 5(4) doesn't work.
Citizenship should never be in the hands of politicians. It should either be judges or very good legislation—and that's our problem: we had lousy legislation in 1947 and lousy legislation in 1977.