Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the minister for coming to meet with committee members.
I would definitely have appreciated receiving your notes in advance. We operate with a simultaneous interpretation system. However, I'm not sure all your remarks were translated as you would have liked.
The following subject is a concern for me. Earlier you announced that an expiry date would be added on citizenship cards in an attempt to solve the problem of young Canadians who have lost their citizenship before the age of 28. I'm referring to an article on the subject that appeared in La Presse early in the week.
In that article—and this is what concerns me—the spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada emphasized that you can't determine the number of people who have lost their citizenship because they didn't have to complete a form before their twenty-eighth birthday. However, if those people didn't complete the form to obtain this card, how will adding an expiry date improve matters?
We know that the problem for these people dates back to February 15, 2005. I'd like to know what measures your department has taken to contact these young Canadians who are abroad. Have you gone through the embassies?