Thanks.
Mr. Shore, you've touched on this issue a couple of times, including in your opening remarks. We've had a number of witnesses talk about “serious criminality” as currently defined in IRPA, and how this changes, both under clause 24, as you noted, and also within the context of the lowering from two years to six months, and what kinds of implication that has had.
We have what I find to be extreme examples. One is of an underage student who goes to the United States, is found to be underage, and therefore is convicted, and somehow that is going to mean that the individual, if they're a permanent resident, is going to be deported to their country of origin. Of course I'd like to get your thoughts on that from a legal perspective.
We look at how the bill is laid out in terms of subsection 36(1) all the way from (a) to (c), and the whole aspect of what this means. For example, paragraph 36(1)(b) refers to “having been convicted outside Canada of an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament, or of two offences not arising out of a single occurrence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute offences under an Act of Parliament...”.
We're having some struggles here. I'd really like to get your opinion on this.