Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We do support the amendment, but I want to highlight that we are against the removal of access to the House of Commons for those found to be inadmissible under sections 34, 35, and 37. Many witnesses testified that those sections are very broadly interpreted by the courts. In particular, I'd like to quote from Mr. Andrew Brouwer's testimony:
The inadmissibility provisions that are already in IRPA are extremely broad and catch people who have committed no crime and represent no danger to safety or security. Among those who are affected already are people who are inadmissible simply because they worked against a repressive regime or an undemocratic government in their own country. It is by now a cliché to observe that the anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela—Nobel Prize winner, honorary Canadian citizen—could be caught up by the revised section 34, as it is drafted.
Mr. Chair, there were other presenters who made some fairly sound arguments. That's the reason we're prepared to support clause 9, the amendment the member has brought forward, and her next one on clause 10.