It is clearly the case that Canada as a country of immigration has long welcomed people, and enabled and encouraged them to maintain their other citizenship should they choose to do so. Canada has self-interested reasons for doing that, in terms of promotion of trade and global relationships.
What this bill does is create a disincentive to dual citizenship, but also it makes dual citizenship a liability and exposes people to a punishment that people who are mononationals, if I can call it that, aren't exposed to. That's arbitrary. Why is it arbitrary? Because there's no evidence, and nor would any be possible, that somebody is by virtue of being a dual national more dangerous, more risky, more likely to commit certain offences, or more worthy of a certain punishment than somebody who is a mononational.
What I have heard from the government is, “We only wish we could do this to mononationals. Too bad we can't.” That's actually not an answer in law. An answer in law is that if you're going to violate—