Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have two more questions for you, Mr. Minister.
First, I would like to quote what you said in the House of Commons in the first hours of debate on Bill S-7. You said, and I quote:
… we also based this bill on a committee report written in 2013 and 2014. That report was on protecting women in our immigration programs ….
I was here at the beginning of this study. I helped draft that report. As you have probably noticed in the supplementary report, the vast majority of witnesses—almost all of the witnesses, in fact—said that they did not support the conditional permanent resident status, saying that it was an important factor in the vulnerability of women. They said that abolishing a status like that, or at least changing it, would help women in violent situations, such as situations of forced marriage.
If you really drafted this bill by considering the testimonies made during the study and the report of this committee, do you intend to make changes to the conditional permanent resident status or to abolish it in the near future?
The purpose of the question isn't to get your opinion on conditional permanent residence. Do you plan to abolish it or change it soon?