Thank you, Madam Chair.
With regard to this particular amendment, I've been studying the speech history in the House, and I notice that the Liberal speaker on second reading of this bill raised this particular issue about.... I'm just going to quote from it quickly. I think it relates to what this amendment is suggesting. She said:
In particular, on the issue of lost Canadians, history has shown us that making hasty changes can lead to the creation of new cohorts of people who may subsequently consider themselves lost Canadians. ...we should ensure that legislation addresses the [bigger] problem and does not create a bigger issue than the one we are...trying to solve.
She speaks about how “bestowing citizenship on individuals who live in another country descended from a Canadian and who never sought to be a Canadian may create unintended” consequences and how the bill creates “a simplified renunciation process as a result”.
In the context of this particular amendment, can you give us a sense of the scope of how many people might be using this renunciation process? It's something I wasn't quite clear on during the initial testimony on the bill, as well.