Chair, the NDP's position, on this side of the table, is that we are opposed to the retroactivity, which is built in, and we have said that a number of times.
Also, our attempt at the amendment was basically to mitigate the concerns that have been expressed. Absolutely, we have very serious concerns about families that are going to be, or could be, separated now for five years, and more, actually, because they can only apply after five years and there could be one, two, three, four, or five years of processing time, depending on the country they come from.
I don't know about Mr. Dykstra's office, but people are lined up at my office, people for whom even getting a visa is turning out to be a real problem, even to attend family functions—a tourist visa to come and view the beautiful country we have and to reunite with family for a short period of time. Surely that's what we want.
There are many parts of this bill that give us serious concern, but overall, we're concerned with the way the so-called “transformation” of immigration is going.