Mr. Chair, Professor Edmonston is a noted demographer at the University of Victoria, and we welcome his analysis of this demographic issue. As he said in his brief to you and as he said in his testimony to you a while back, he had done some analysis based on a number of data sources, including the Canadian census and the American census. His analysis dealt with particular population groups. He defined those groups as border babies or war brides or children of war brides.
Professor Edmonston himself said this analysis is not an indication that these are the number of people who have citizenship problems. He went so far as to say the one piece of data we can be sure about are those who have come to bring their case forward to the department. So Professor Edmonston's statement goes to how solid that information is in terms of the cases we know about.