I do, yes.
I want to thank Melynda and all of you on the committee.
I really appreciate being here. Hopefully, we can come to some decent resolution.
Because I'm a bit nervous, I will read from my notes. I'll try to make it as fast as possible.
You've already heard from my sister that our father was in the war and was wounded. He was a decorated soldier and a very proud Canadian.
We both thought we were citizens, and then this whole thing came about when she applied for a driver's licence. They said, oops, no, you can't have one.
So that sort of started the ball rolling. My understanding of the 1947 act is that any of the children who came over as children of war brides, of Canadian soldiers, etc., would automatically be made Canadians if they came over in 1946. But we came to find out that if you were illegitimate, that didn't apply to you.
So that sort of leaves us in...I don't know what.