With this particular issue, the points raised were points I've been addressing in the last few days. On the one hand, enforceability—in Canada or outside Canada. My sense is that the primary target may well be protecting Canada's borders from individuals entering. In anticipation of your question—it does happen—I'm looking at the Canada Gazette Part II, volume 149, number 8, from April 1, 2015. It's a regulation amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations. This amendment formalizes electronic travel authorizations. The gain here is to have the prospective traveller to Canada complete tombstone data online. If it turns out that the prospective traveller has more than one spouse, automatically the file would be queued for review and potentially the ETA would not be announced.
Here's where we get to the rub. Our foreign policy so far is to allow forward individuals to Canada on a temporary basis who are known polygamists on the condition they promise not to practise polygamy in Canada during their stay. Well, I'm hoping that your question will raise literally hundreds of millions of dollars for our treasury because as a proposed remedial measure to this, I would add on to the ETA system a template that would allow the prospective traveller to be treated as we treat individuals with drunk driving offences. For $400 you can access a temporary resident permit to overcome your inadmissibility to Canada for a temporary purpose. This would allow individuals—the millions, if not tens of millions of individuals who are in polygamist relationships—to enter Canada in compliance with our immigration law for a temporary purpose, and we collect $400 per traveller.
Once in Canada, my concern is that it's shared. How do we remove people from Canada who run afoul of the proposed law that will, let's face it, have retroactive impact? I have great difficulty with that. There is a weakness potentially in that there's no clarification as to a best before date. When does this apply, retroactively or not?