Thank you, Mr. Chair,
I wish to make two points on this amendment. The first is that we must uphold as a country the notion that the revocation of citizenship is appropriate when citizenship was obtained through false representation, fraud, or some other unsavoury means. I also want to make the point that doing so is completely in line with international norms and laws.
As committee members might know, in 1978 Canada signed on to the United Nations 1962 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. This convention allows Canada to revoke citizenship if it was obtained by misrepresentation or fraud.
Western countries who have also signed on to this convention do follow this practice, and therefore this amendment is not necessary. I'm not in favour of it because, as a country, we should be able to render someone stateless if they obtained citizenship in Canada through fraudulent or other similar means.