I am. I'm substituting for Ms. Zahid while I'm doing this.
This takes us in a different direction.
For reference, folks, this is number 13626156 in the package. It's LIB-2. I move—there's going to be one small change that I make, and I'll explain when I get there—that Bill C-3, in clause 1, be amended by adding, after line 28 on page 4, the following:
(8.1) Section 3 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):
(3.1) Subsection (3) does not apply in respect of a person who, while a minor child, was adopted, before or after the day on which An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) comes into force, by a citizen if the adoption is recognized by the province or territory in which the adoptive parent resides—
This is the change, by the way:
—and was in accordance with the Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption that was concluded on May 29, 1993 and came into force on May 1, 1995.