Madam Chair, thank you for the question.
To begin with, I'd like to clarify that subsection 5(5), on the statelessness grant of citizenship, to which this amendment pertains, is available only as a result of the first-generation limit to a child of a Canadian who is born abroad and who is stateless. The subsection 5(5) grant was created as a guardrail or a safety valve when the first-generation limit was put in place in 2009. It's a rare circumstance and a rare occurrence. Nevertheless the safety valve is there.
For the committee's consideration, in general the number of applications received under these provisions is going to be extremely low. I'll ask my colleague in a moment to give the statistics we have on that, in response to the member's question.
In addition, for the committee's consideration, because the provision was created as a safety valve in response to the first-generation limit for a child born abroad to a Canadian, who may find themselves stateless for that reason, the new connection test available for the second generation born abroad and beyond, for whom the parent is meeting a connection test, will very likely result in this provision being used even less than it would in the exceptional circumstances under which it may be used now. That's in response to the member's question.
I'm going to turn to my colleague Uyen, who will give the most recent statistics we have with regard to how many times this provision has been used already, to provide an order of magnitude in response to the member's question.