Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to you both.
Since you both touched on the topic of citizenship revocation, I'd like to go in that vein as well. I'd like to quote for you a study that was done by an expert in the field, who is a lawyer with an LL.B. and a LL.M. from Yale and also is a professor. So this is a person who is an educator teaching future lawyers.
The study is by Craig Forcese and it's titled “A Tale of Two Citizenships: Citizenship Revocation for 'Traitors and Terrorists'”. I'm going to read a very brief paragraph from it:
Amending Canada’s citizenship laws to provide for denaturalization of “traitors and terrorists”, as proposed by the current federal government, is an idea consumed with legal flaws. To comply with international law on the prohibition of citizenship deprivation that would result in statelessness, any such amendments would have to apply only to individuals with dual citizenship. However, targeting those individuals would be very hard to defend against equality-based challenges under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In addition, denaturalization of “traitors and terrorists” might well be perceived as a punitive measure, whose impact and stigma would call for constitutional procedural protections far stronger than those set out in the current Citizenship Act and the proposed revisions to it. Such denaturalization also seems unlikely to advance any clear Canadian national security interest, and would accomplish less than can be done through other laws, including the Criminal Code.
This is just the abstract for a study. We clearly don't have time to go through all of it.
What are your opinions on what this expert has to say?