I don't have any information as to what people in that situation are told. I would say, though, given the nature of the subject matter before us, that I think there's a real benefit to having simple rules--born in Canada, you're a Canadian; once a Canadian, always a Canadian; that's the way people understand it, and I think that's for a good reason.
However, although it's tempting to think of the citizenship problem facing the committee right now along the lines of immigration, as though you're trying to balance the social safety net and national security against Canada's need for immigration to sustain growth--and I know that came up in the question period before--we want to urge that in order to get the ministry's attitude towards this problem right, we need to keep a firm focus on what citizenship means and on the fact that it's not the same thing as immigration.
We're not handing out special dispensation, deciding who's in and who's out. We need a basic understanding of what citizenship is, and then we need to defend that. It's just a different set of considerations.