I was going to introduce these people as they came.
The Benner case went to the Supreme Court of Canada. In a unanimous decision it was ruled that the 1947 Canadian Citizenship Act was indeed blatantly discriminatory. When I brought that up to the Senate of Canada in testimony, the bureaucrats at CIC, specifically Patricia Birkett, who was then the acting director general of the integration branch, came out one week later and said that decision was transitional and would expire in 14 weeks.
When courts interpret laws it's not that they are legislators; you're the legislators. They said this law was wrong and they brought it back as a transitional provision for you people to correct. We're here because parliamentarians didn't do their jobs in 1947, 1977, and with the Benner case. They threw it back and now we're back to square one again. Fix this thing.
We have a government for two reasons: to protect citizens, and make life better for citizens. To show you how bad it can be, I want you to now turn to Magali Castro-Gyr and her horrible story of what happened to her.