Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This bill, in my opinion, is accomplishing two things. First, I mentioned last week the establishment of two-tier citizenship. Now I have a letter that I believe all committee members have. It's from the Canadian Bar Association. I want to quote one part of it:
The Bill proposes to create two classes of citizens. Dual citizens would risk losing Canadian citizenship in certain unclearly defined circumstances, even if they were born in Canada and had lived their entire lives here. Citizens who do not have another nationality would not risk losing Canadian citizenship.
We're talking about a relatively small number. You could count on one hand, minus your thumb, the number of people this has affected over the last 50 years. Is it worth establishing two-tier citizenship? Would it be just as effective to say that if these individuals are found, there is another way of dealing with them? You could put them in prison, for example, and treat citizens equally.
I'm interested in very quick responses from Mr.Khan and Ms. Siddiqui.