Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming back to the committee.
Minister, I want to come back to what you were just explaining about why 1947 was chosen as a cut-off date in your proposal for the new legislation. It seems to me that a number of the most difficult cases and the most emotional of the cases that we've heard have dealt with people who were born outside of Canada, to a Canadian, prior to 1947. All of these have disturbed us all greatly, to see those folks—whose commitment to Canada I don't think is questioned by anyone—go through the hardship and frustration of having their citizenship questioned fairly late in their lives, and with very significant consequences for them. Is there no remedy to solve the situation legislatively for those folks? I hear your answer that Canadian citizenship wasn't acknowledged officially until 1947, but there was a connection to Canada established before that, and we did operate under some rules before that. Why can't we go back further than that and have a fix this fall for all of those folks as well?