We have had debate on second reading. We would be delighted at the end of the next time in the House devoted to second reading to vote all together to bring it to committee for study. That would be a great breakthrough on behalf of the many Canadians waiting for a speedier processing of their citizenship applications. We will take your suggestion on board and look forward to the NDP's support at second reading for an early move to committee.
The point we made about decades of neglect doesn't refer to our government. We're grateful if you predict that we will be here for a decade or more. We certainly look forward to renewing our mandate with Canadians and earning the confidence of Canadians at the next election, but we've only been in office for eight years. The neglect and the failure to address fraud with regard to the residency requirement, the issue of lost Canadians, the issue of revoking citizenship for those who engage in extreme acts of betrayal of their Canadian citizenship really belong to the Liberal Party, which brought us the last version of this bill in 1977.