Thank you. I appreciate that as well.
Professor Francis, it's good to hear from you again.
When you appeared before the committee when we were doing our tour in Vancouver in the last Parliament, I think your remarks actually hit a very strong chord with the committee. I've often heard Mr. Telegdi actually quote you. Others of us have done that in committee around the issue of two classes of Canadian citizenship, so I appreciate that you've reiterated that so clearly again today for us, because I think it's a very important point.
I appreciate you also raising the confusion you went through listening to the debate, because actually I found myself today--I don't know why today and why I haven't done this other times--going through my own family members and thinking about the ones who had connections overseas and offshore and whether their citizenship is in question as well. So I think it is really instructive that when we hear these issues, we all start doing that, and it raises that question and sort of chills our confidence in the legislation and in the meaning of Canadian citizenship.
We have to address that, because we can't afford to let those kinds of questions linger, and we can't afford, as we heard from witnesses earlier, to see people who are afraid to check into it because they don't want to know the answer or they're afraid of the answer. That's ultimately not helpful for us as a country.
I guess I'm just making comments at this moment.
I appreciate the Legion's report and the strength of the language you used. Talking about bureaucratic trivialization of citizenship I think is a really important comment on the importance of citizenship to people. I'm wondering if you folks could provide copies of the resolutions that were passed by the Legion at its convention, or maybe in its executive group, because they might be helpful for us as well.
Your comment about bureaucratic trivialization reminded me of General Dallaire's comment about bureaucratic terrorism when it came to this very same issue. I think the strong language is really an indication of how important, at a very basic level, this is to people and how we have to find a permanent and lasting and quick solution to this.
Thank you very much for appearing.