Thank you very much. It's certainly good having you back to the committee, Lui. If I may say so to members of the committee--and Mr. Jaffer and Nina will attest to this--he used to keep the parliamentary secretary in line. He was of great assistance in that.
I think we'll probably need about two meetings.
I think one of the problems we have, and we have had over the years, is that you have a minister and you have a deputy minister. The deputy minister has a short tenure, and so does the minister. Essentially I don't think they are capable of providing the kinds of answers you might be looking for.
I want to see the department officials who make the decision to reject somebody's citizenship on the basis that they are born out of wedlock or have not applied before a certain date to retain citizenship. I want to see those folks, and the policy folks in the department, and the legal advisers in the department who come up with the decision that we're going to take one of the Clark children and try to revoke their citizenship.
Quite frankly, I don't know why the parliamentary secretary is offering up the minister as a sacrificial lamb in this, because quite frankly she had nothing to do with creating the problem. It's a problem that she inherited, and it's a problem, unfortunately, that successive governments have inherited.
I think we have a right to have the folks who actually are making these decisions in front of us. This is the best list that I was able to come up with. May I say that, to the credit of people in the department, my office has had communications from people in the department who are rather upset going to work every day and seeing the injustices that occur. These were the names I was provided with, names of people who are most likely to help us find answers to the problems. If you want to go beyond the source, I'm not going to name any sources.