My three points are not exhaustive, and I think one of the major tasks before this committee is to enumerate where we want to draw that line. The three things I was pointing to were birth in Canada—these are just basic principles of international law—descending from Canadian parents, and my third was just taking into account the situations we hear of with people.
The situation of Rod Donaldson comes to mind. He was here three weeks ago. It's just a situation where who could have ever anticipated this. He was abducted and he was abducted again. He was adopted by notary publics who forged documents. It's just crazy. So I'm saying that for those kinds of people, for these unanticipatable situations that even amendments to the law can't necessarily foresee, the department should be encouraged to use its discretion to use some kind of common-sense, estoppel approach. Where somebody has been living here and the government has represented to them in several ways--here's your passport, here's your social insurance number, we'll take taxes from you, thank you very much--that citizenship should just be granted on kind of a humanitarian grounds basis.