Thank you, Madam Chair.
As I was mentioning, this amendment pushes out the start date for the first-generation limit, which would have the impact of automatically conferring citizenship on untold thousands of individuals who were born abroad, impacting persons who, since 2009, would not have been automatic citizens and would have had to have gone to apply for and obtain a grant of citizenship. In automatically conferring citizenship to untold thousands of such persons, the concern is twofold. The first is that it's benefiting some through automatic citizenship but not others in terms of all of those born after. Second, it's creating the potential for future lost Canadians in the sense that those who are receiving automatic citizenship by the moving of the first-generation limit are impacted by being unable to pass on citizenship to their descendants and their future children and potential lost Canadians.
Thank you, Madam Chair.