On that point, the email that Ms. Zahid read out talks about the centralization of access for members of Parliament into one number. What's not clear from that is whether or not staff from the ministerial inquiries division have the authority to look at things like reconsiderations of rulings on citizenship decisions, as well as, for example, dealing with overseas embassies. These are scopes of responsibility that the staff that man the current central line at the central processing unit do not have.
What's not clear in that email is whether or not as members of Parliament we will still have access to the level of service and the scope of responsibility of the staff that the ministerial inquiries division provides.
The way I read that email and many of my colleagues did, your caucus included, it looks as if we would have to phone a number and have a staff member act as a middleman. That's not the best process in my opinion.
I would like more information on why this decision was made. That's simple. Also, as my comments to the officials were, my recommendation would be rather than going to a middleman that we have better training for new caucus members, so perhaps if the ministerial inquiries division is getting a bunch of requests that are out of scope or something like that, that some training is provided.
Your question about why this is happening now, the changes to Bill C-6 will impact your offices. You are going to have a lot of questions from constituents on how these new rulings might apply retroactively or if they apply to cases already in there. We're going to have a lot of requests.
I do think that again this is not a gotcha situation. Just to have the officials sit here, and whoever the officials may deem to find appropriate to do that, to answer questions, I think a lot of our colleagues across party lines would be very interested in that.