Thank you for your question.
A number of proposals in this bill will significantly help reinforce our efforts under way to improve the integrity of the citizenship program.
You heard the minister speak earlier about changes to the requirements. For example, residence is one of the main areas where we have fraud. Now we're moving to a more objective test backed by objective evidence. When the government has the entry-exit tool starting next year, that will help the decision-making process to be much more clear-cut and to identify those cases right up front in the process when someone is saying that they meet the residence requirement, whereas we may have objective evidence that may not be the case. Those cases will be identified much earlier on now, which will be to the good.
The bill itself proposes a range of other measures to reinforce integrity. One of the ones the minister mentioned had to do with new authority to designate a body to regulate citizenship consultants, similar to what exists under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to hold these consultants to similar ethical and professional standards of conduct, and at the same time bring the offences and penalties for citizenship fraud up to date to provide some additional deterrents, as well as some of those measures around the revocation process which the minister spoke of earlier.