The people I've talked to across my riding and across the country think it's a great bill. They really want the opportunity to make it easier for families to come and spend time together here in Canada.
Overwhelmingly, the response has been extraordinarily positive. Along the way, I've had many people suggest that the bill doesn't go far enough in a couple of aspects. I'm always open to people who want to make the bill better. The only concern I have heard is with respect to purchasing insurance from outside of Canada. I do believe that the bill presents a framework and that the minister can address all of those concerns by prescribing the qualifications that the insurance company has to have in order to be listed as an insurance company that you can purchase health insurance from.
This is a bill that I think all parties can support and all parties can feel good about because it's going to make it so much easier for families to spend time together, and they don't have to apply for a regular visa.
We all know too many stories where you can't get a parent here for the death of a child. They didn't make it to the funeral because they couldn't get the visa. This would help make sure that situations like that don't happen. I can't imagine if I couldn't go to my brother's funeral in the U.K. because I didn't get a visa. We want to fix things like that.