You're quite right, the amendment that's proposed is to enable the minister to have some discretion to deal with an important issue that's been raised by this committee and by witnesses. That is where a citizen may be caught up by the provisions as described in the amendments, but perhaps they have been convicted overseas of an offence and perhaps the procedure was one where there were concerns around independence of the judiciary, or perhaps they were forced to enlist in a foreign army against their own volition.
Recognizing that these cases are exceptional to begin with and that the numbers would be small, and that cases of that nature would be an even more exceptional subset, it's important to have that discretion. It's analogous to what exists under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and it is in order to ensure that such individuals are not unfairly penalized under those kinds of circumstances. So it is limited, if you will, to enabling the minister to decide not to proceed with the application of these provisions in very specific circumstances, the ones that I've outlined.