You're quite right, in the sense that the citizenship grant that we currently have in place embodies or reflects those international obligations that Canada has.
I mentioned four criteria in my opening remarks, including the fact that the officer who's deciding on the international adoption case and the application for citizenship has to be satisfied that the best interests of the child are protected. Having the grant mechanism in place allows the visa officer to ensure the best interests of the child, because they have to turn their minds to a number of related questions: is there any evidence that the child has been sold? Is there any evidence of child trafficking? Have the parents given free and informed consent?
All of those things speak to the best interests of the child. If you had some sort of automatic process that didn't take these things into account, then we'd be riding roughshod over our international obligations and over provincial jurisdiction on matters of adoption.