I just think it would be highly useful, because in the details Dr. Norris provides a breakdown of the methodology. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but in the steps he took in estimating on different worksheets the total number of persons that could be impacted, there are multiple steps. There's step five, with multiple substeps, just to get at the diaspora group that could be impacted by this, just as a total amount, and then, working backwards, how many persons might want to apply in the future. It goes into a great deal of detail in trying to estimate those numbers.
We've asked for that information from the department, obviously. I just think that this would help us to get to an actual number that we could find defensible. If it is as low as this table says—as I said, it was 7,031 on the high end and as low as just a few hundred people on the low end by 2049—then we're not talking about a large group of the population. We're talking about a very, very small group of people who would be impacted. Potentially, you could use this worksheet in the future when estimating other groups of lost Canadians that could be covered off by other pieces of legislation.
I just think it's an opportunity. As I said, there's this court case going on right now in which all this information is being considered. It was provided to them. Hopefully, we can have the officials deal with it then.
That's all I wanted to say, Madam Chair.