Thank you, Madam Chair.
I do appreciate my colleague's comments and her intent to be compassionate, and I think that's what this whole entire bill is doing. It's to be compassionate. We do have an expectation from the people who are watching. They're waiting for us to get going and to pass these amendments so that we can be compassionate in this approach of making sure we respond to this need.
I do have some questions for my colleague around this amendment.
First, what does it have to do with lost Canadians?
Second, does this amendment impact anything outside of citizenship applications? My understanding of this is that the amendment to the Citizenship Act could apply only to citizenship applications and not PR or temporary visas, so what is the relation?
If she could respond with the relevance to what we're talking about here today so that we can actually be compassionate by moving these amendments fast enough.... People who have been waiting have been waiting for years and talking about things that are not relevant to stretch time is.... I have lots of respect for my colleagues, but it's inappropriate, and we are actually putting more of a burden on these people.