That certainly was not my intent. My question to Ms. Irish was simply to comment on the bill, not to determine whether what I said was correct or not. Those are my feelings. I respect, in fact, that the answer she gave was not in relation to my comments but was referring to the NDP.
The only other point I would make here, Mr. Chair, is that under the current legislation, criminals are already inadmissible into the country. So the only thing I did not speak to was that not only is this a very controversial amendment, which is completely out of line with what the government is trying to accomplish—and to be honest, I believe what the NDP should actually acknowledge they don't agree with—but in fact criminals are not admissible into the country under the current legislation.