Let me be clear: As I said at my last appearance before this committee, it is not our intention has never been our intention to put into doubt the permanent residency of bona fide refugees in Canada if, for example, there's a change of country conditions.
Just to be clear, the reason for the amendment was to streamline what is currently a two-step process for cessation of protected person status and revocation of permanent residency. If, for example, someone clearly has demonstrated after the fact that they obtained their refugee status illegitimately, or fraudulently, we do want to reserve the right, in some limited number of cases, to go back and say, “Sorry, we've since found out that you fooled the system. We're not going to let you profit from it.”
But we clearly do not want to throw into question the permanent residency of bona fide, good-faith refugees. That is why I certainly would be open to amendments to this section of the bill—