It's very difficult to answer your question because we don't have a text of the proposed bill that would allow us to understand what the specifics will be. These are questions of enormous importance that need to find a place to be debated and democratically aired. There is a potential that you will slip to a standard of reasonable grounds for suspicion such as we find in our immigration legislation, or a standard of considering reasonable grounds such as we find in the exclusions from the refugee process. The currently worded bill doesn't give us much indication of the types of amendments that the minister has come forward to ask. The current bill would also risk stripping people who have only one citizenship of that citizenship, and that is a blatant breach of a number of provisions of international law. I urge the committee to look at those changes. As I'm opposed to stripping dual nationals of citizenship on any of these bases, I'm reluctant to suggest better options to assist in doing that.
On April 16th, 2013. See this statement in context.