Mr. Chair, I have five minutes and I do want to try to get across a couple of points.
First and foremost, I think it's very important that we emphasize that mandatory detention is indeed, from my and the Liberal Party's perspective, unconstitutional and will be challenged.
Not only does Bill C-31 raise concerns regarding challenges to our Constitution, I would ultimately argue that it also tarnishes Canada's reputation to be a world leader in dealing with refugees and whole issue of refugees more broadly, where we have 10 million plus people around the world who are in need of some sort of asylum or are in refugee camps and so forth. Our potential to be able to influence that is being tarnished by Bill C-31.
I want to go to the Sun Sea and the Ocean Lady. The Sun Sea carried 492 people and the Ocean Lady 76 people. There are six people who are still in detention. The current system allows us to keep in custody those individuals who are a high risk to Canadian society. They remain in detention. That's an important point that needs to be made.
Ms. Nakache, you made reference to detention. I appreciate your words and that they are based on finances and the fact that it violates the Constitution. Those are excellent points that I concur with wholeheartedly.
The question I have for you is this. There are other aspects to Bill C-31, such that if you are deemed a refugee and your circumstances change abroad, you could lose your status as a refugee or your ability to sponsor a family member, even if you have been deemed to be a refugee for years.
I'm wondering if you can provide a quick comment on that.