Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Obviously, if the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration feels that a situation requires and warrants an application for permanent residency on the basis of humanitarian and compassionate grounds, this application should be allowed due process, and a deportation order should wait until this application has been finalized.
Additionally, we heard from Mr. Les Linklater, the assistant deputy minister at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, that his department has recently transitioned to an improved way to assess humanitarian and compassionate applications, as passed by Bill C-11 in 2011.
We need to allow these improvements to work through the system and evaluate their impact before wasting more time and money in rewriting these provisions yet again.
Thank you.
(Amendment negatived)
(Clauses 14 and 15 agreed to on division)
(On clause 16)