The other issue I have is that the 1947 citizenship act, with all its discriminatory clauses, is 60 years old this year. The 1977 citizenship act is 30 years old this year. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is 25 years old this year. Surely it's time we had a citizenship act that brought it all together and that is definitely charter-compliant.
I guess the only thing I can say is that the previous government was committed to bringing in a citizenship act and had funding of $20 million to do so. The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration has gone on two cross-country tours, in 2003 and 2005, on this. We had a lot of the basis for a new citizenship act, and one of the things the committee decided was that it had to be charter-compliant, and that was very, very important to the committee. So $20 million is not a lot of money when you're dealing with a $200 billion budget, but it's so fundamentally important, particularly when citizenship means that you want people to embrace the charter and the constitution.