Yes, you're quite right.
I'll once again reinforce for the committee, Mr. Menegakis, that Bill C-43 does not propose to change the definition of what constitutes a serious crime under the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. It keeps the same definition.
I find there's a certain cognitive dissonance here. Some of the critics have been suggesting that a penal sentence of six months is insufficient to define a serious crime, but that has always been the law under IRPA. An op-ed written by our colleague Mr. Cotler from Mount Royal published a couple of days ago suggested that it was outrageous that we should lower the bar for serious criminality in IRPA to six months. We're not lowering the bar. We're maintaining the bar that Mr. Cotler himself voted for in 2002.