I think that would be very tragic; there could be other people out there, potentially, who we don't know about and who still have a legitimate claim on Canadian citizenship as a result of that.
I just wanted to comment on the whole issue of security checks for people who are trying to restore their citizenship or confirm their citizenship. In the last Parliament, when we were looking at issues of lost Canadians--and we looked at a particular example of that, which Don and others brought to us at the time--we had a big debate about whether people should be subject to security checks at that point.
I think the sentiment of the committee at the time was that this was completely unnecessary. If these people were Canadian citizens and they were criminals, they were our criminals. We needed to make sure that their Canadian citizenship was the primary issue and we had to accept them, even if they had gotten into some trouble over the years.
In terms of clarifying your citizenship or restoring it, if you have a legitimate claim on it, I don't accept that the security certificate should be an issue. I'm sure in most cases that won't be a defining issue. I know we've heard of the case where a number of folks, border babies and folks in the family who didn't have a criminal record, have had their citizenship clarified and restored, and the one person who did is being considered for deportation, which I think is an absolutely outrageous situation.
So I just wanted to make those comments. Thank you again for appearing. I appreciate your taking the time.
I think Don has one comment he'd like to make in light of that.