All right, Madam Chair. If you want, I can repeat my amendment in French.
The goal of my amendment is simply to give us more time to consider amendments that may be proposed to this bill.
I have not heard any opinion other than that Ms. Kwan's motion should be adopted as is. If we move in that direction, I will check with our team to see if we can ask Senator Yonah Martin what amendments she wants to make to the Citizenship Act. My political advisers and I have a number of ideas for amendments. The goal is not just to change the way the act works. It is also to ensure that Canadians will not lose their citizenship and that permanent residents of our country who are in the process of becoming Canadians, as I was in 1989 when I received my Canadian citizenship, will not be harmed.
We need to have an opportunity to talk to our colleagues who are not on this committee about the amendments that they want to put forward. I think May 15 is a very reasonable date; it's not a full 30 days. That would give us enough time to consider the amendments with our respective caucuses and do the work that our constituents expect.