Thank you for the question.
Madam Chair, in line with some concerns shared with this committee, with regard to an amendment previously tabled that would have benefited persons who passed away, there are a few concerns for the committee's consideration.
The first being that we cannot estimate the number—the potential thousands of persons—whom this proposed amendment may extend to.
The second, as noted before, is that there's no precedent for this in the sense that, up until this point in time, legislative remedies for lost Canadians have only extended to the living.
That brings us to the third concern shared with the committee before, in that there could be unintended consequences, and it's difficult to know ahead of time what those may be because there's no precedent for this.
One area the department can point to, as previously noted, is the potential for unintended consequences on the citizenship by descent of the persons who would be benefiting from this provision and who are alive today. There is a safety valve clause that the member has mentioned, but we're not convinced, as the department, that the safety valve, in terms of avoiding consequences on the citizenship by descent of the living, is ironclad, so that concern remains.
Those are the four issues for the committee's consideration.
I'll pass it to my colleague from the Department of Justice in case she has anything she wishes to add.