Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all our guests. It was certainly wonderful to hear your viewpoints on this particular bill. It was refreshing to hear all the witnesses here testify similarly to their beliefs.
Last year Citizenship and Immigration actually embarked on revoking the citizenships of those who had obtained citizenship fraudulently here in Canada through residency fraud. I actually contacted my constituents in Scarborough Centre. I sent out information letting them know about it and asked for their feedback. There was overwhelming support of what citizenship holds in this country, but there was this underlying commonality in the responses that I received. I had many—and when I say many, I mean hundreds of—responses came back. People were concerned about the fact that people in this country were committing terrorism, involved in training camps and so on and still retained their citizenship. There was a request that actually said that we should be revoking citizenship of those who commit acts of terror, who plot to destroy what citizenship holds—the “true north strong and free”.
We're all proud to be Canadian, and I believe I heard from both groups here today that you are in agreement with that statement. Someone who plots to destroy Canada—what it means to be Canadian—democracy and freedom, should not be able to retain their citizenship if they are dual citizens.
Do you agree with that statement?