Minister, you said that citizenship is a privilege and comes with responsibilities. I put it to you that being a minister also has privileges and comes with responsibilities to know the file. When you were here last time, I questioned you on whether you'd advertised. You turned to your deputy, the deputy turned around and spoke to somebody else from the department, and you insisted that you had advertised. And this is not an excuse like “I was new, ten days”; your deputy turned around and consulted with other people that you had from the department.
You also stated that in the absence of a report, you're bringing this forward. Minister, we're working on a report. Unfortunately, you're bringing this forward because you want to please the media here today and because you don't want to come here and face the music on the mistakes you've made. This is what you're doing.
Minister, you also state this in the recommendations:
Fourth, anyone born to a Canadian Citizen abroad—mother or father, in or out-of-wedlock—on or after January 1, 1947, is a Canadian citizen and will have their citizenship confirmed if they are the first generation born abroad. But no further.
Does that mean, Minister, that somebody born abroad, second generation, is not going to be a Canadian? Is that what you're stating?