On the loss retention provision, the government has now become somewhat more proactive, but there are still thousands of people who have certificates and who don't know, and so on.
I would like to make a little comment on your observation that the minister is acting to deal with cases that come forward now. We are grateful for that. The government has taken several positive steps that we have been proposing for a number of years, but the framework within which certain cases are being resolved now is a fairly small window. People have to have been in Canada for maybe half of their lives, or something close to that, before the government will consider them under the subsection 5(4) provision.
That, as my colleague Mary said, is a real dilemma. Somebody comes into her office in Aylmer, Ontario, and says: “I'm 29 years old; I've been here for five years, and somebody tells me I should have gone through the retention process.”
If Mary says “You should have. Technically, you're no longer a citizen, but your certificate looks as if it is valid...”—but this man has not been here half his life, or anything close to it—Mary is in this awkward situation: should she really advise this man to just keep quiet for the next 15 years until he's been here half his life and will then be considered under the subsection 5(4) provision? It's a very awkward dilemma, you know.