Madam Chair, from my hearing of the member's reading of the passage, my former colleague seemed to be commenting to the effect that the discretionary grant under subsection 5(4) is a grant, and, therefore, like any other grant, as I've mentioned, those who are recipients of a grant are able to pass on citizenship to their children born abroad.
The member is correct that what I'm saying in summary is that we believe moving the date for the first-generation limit is undesirable, because it would cause these unintended consequences of conferring automatic citizenship on untold thousands born abroad, who would then be unable to pass on citizenship to their future children born abroad, including those who have obtained a grant since 2009, because that was their main way to access citizenship's, being impacted by the first-generation limit.
Thank you.