The committee has received numbers from Professor Edmonston. His estimates are 85,000 Canadian-born persons with U.S. citizenship living in the United States; 10,000 to 20,000 Canadian-born persons with U.S. citizenship living in Canada; 25,000 to 30,000 war brides; 6,000 war babies; 10,000 U.S. border babies; and 74,000 babies born abroad, including the 10,000 U.S. border babies.
It is a significant number, and I think it's a number that obviously the committee is using to spend time on this issue. Hopefully the government is now realizing that a significant number—upwards of close to 200,000-plus individuals—may be in the position of having lost their citizenship.