Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the officials for coming and giving testimony.
I have just a couple of really straightforward questions to start off with. A constituent of mine, Mr. Don Chapman, is actually in the room today, and I'm sure you're aware of the good work that he's done with respect to lost Canadians. Obviously he was trapped under the laws in the 1947 act, and is classified as a lost Canadian. I'm wondering—It's a really simple question—why is the department ignoring the 1947 remedies, subsection 5(4), to deal with giving Mr. Chapman his citizenship?