These are two different points. When you talk about the serious ones, I want to say that we're not saying all criminals get to stay. We're not saying that at all. We are saying there should be a process.
The most serious fellows should get expedited and they should be made a priority. If you look at citizenship fraud, we saw this go on for decades. How many people lost their citizenship for fraud? Almost nobody, until the minister said he was going after that and putting the resources there to go after 2,500 cases to get them removed. I can tell you, that is sending shock waves around the world. We're delighted at his efforts to do that and we're appalled that nobody else did it before. That was simply a resources issue.
If you look at some of these serious offenders that the public is really upset about, some of the cases that have been cited by the minister, you prioritize them and you put them in a jail. If they are a danger to offend, you can detain them. We have that power to detain them. Believe me, they want their appeals to go a little faster if they are sitting in a remand centre somewhere.
There are tools out there already. The problem is that the cases that get cited in support of this bill tend to be the most egregious ones, forgetting what the effect is on probably the vast majority that aren't that egregious.
If you look at the Baylis case as an example, where the police officer was killed, that wasn't the fault of the IAD process. What happened is that the guy went through and he lost his appeal, was ordered deported, and he disappeared. Because he disappeared, he eventually emerged with a gun in his hand and killed somebody. That is appalling.
It shouldn't take that long, if you draw distinctions between the minor and the serious cases and go after the serious ones.
Another suggestion is that you could let an officer impose the terms and conditions of the minor cases, set up something like you do now with bail where there are mandatory terms and conditions. If they breach on the minor cases, then they're gone.
I'm sorry about that. I took you on a long answer.