Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Any time anyone, especially someone with professional credentials such as yours, Mr. Brouwer, says we're doing things unCanadian, it makes us pause.
It's important to make sure everyone is on the same page and understands that the provisions we're talking about are designed to apply to people who are not Canadian citizens, who are in fact from other countries and have sought to come here. They may be further along in their goal than the billion or two others who would like to be Canadians, but they are still somehow associated with another place of origin.
To put it into context, I was shocked to learn there is an average of some 850 serious criminals who appeal to the IAD every year to delay their deportation from Canada. To me, that's a significant number. To most Canadians who are not lawyers, like you and me, that would be a significant number.
Does that number concern you?