Mr. Chairman, a response to a question that was asked from the government as to why we would want the officials to come back. The answer is because we will have questions. They may provide a written response, but we will have questions.
For example, my constituency offices have called embassies on specific questions from our constituents, and the embassies have told us to call this general number. This is something new. We've always had assistance from the embassies. We've never had the embassies...and to be fair to the embassies not all are saying that. Perhaps they haven't heard of this ruling yet, but some embassies are saying they will not speak to us. We will have to call this general number.
Members of Parliament are asked a lot to assist constituents on immigration and other issues. This just makes our job much more difficult and it certainly fits into questions that will arise as a result of Bill C-6.
The reason the motion has been made, we may, and I expect we will, have questions of the staff on whatever responses they're giving to this ruling.