In particular, it was your party that helped us.
You were the driving force behind Bill S-2 and getting it through. Senator Noël Kinsella came to me one time, and I said, “Yes, but Bill S-2 is only a very small solution.” He said, “You will have so much hangup with the bureaucracy of getting Bill S-2 that we're going to take it one step at a time”.
Well, you know what? Those solutions don't work. The band-aid solutions don't work. It's been in place for individual cases for 60 years. That hasn't worked. We're still in these problems. It's time for a legislative fix, and the Canadian people deserve to know that their citizenship is based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It's that simple.
Thank you.