Thank you.
I want to ask about Canada's international obligation to prevent statelessness, with reference to those proposed amendments.
One of our most significant concerns with this bill has been its potential to render someone stateless. The government's amendments, if adopted, would ensure that anyone with citizenship would not be rendered stateless via its proposed changes to clause 2, but the proposed amendments to clause 1 would not ensure that permanent residents couldn't be rendered stateless.
The Library of Parliament estimates that there were 84 stateless refugees accepted into Canada between 2003 and 2010. That totals approximately 12 annually.
We know it is quite possible that no one would ever encounter this problem via the legislation, if passed, with the government's amendments. Nonetheless, our international obligations are important. Can you comment on the problem of statelessness?