I want to set that aside for the time being so that we can settle this matter. In the final analysis, without making any more changes to the legislation, the minister could certainly use subsection 5(4) of the Citizenship Act to settle the status of these 71 cases, and we could move on to something else. Additional changes to the legislation are not necessary to settle the 71 cases. The minister could use his authority and grant citizenship to these people directly.
On June 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.