Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank each presenter for their persuasive, compelling presentations--different styles, which is typical for human beings in communicating, but each of you very persuasive, very compelling. Thank you for presenting and sharing with us your particular stories or situations.
To Ms. Vermeersch, you described in very poignant fashion the type of citizens your parents were. With your dad serving the country, your mom doing charitable work, they were just the type of outstanding citizens we want and need here in Canada. You also indicated that your dealings with your member of Parliament, Diane Finley, were met with various roadblocks, if I can put it that way.
What was the psychological and emotional effect on you, Ms. Vermeersch, when you first found out--in 2003, as I understand it--that in fact you had lost your Canadian citizenship? How did that strike you, or how did that resonate with you?