I have a small point, Mr. Chairman.
Maybe I shouldn't be staying up at night reading these things, but this clause starts the section by modification to the Immigration and Refugee Act, and in particular the clause specifies the objectives of the act, which includes in (h) to protect the health and safety of Canadians and to maintain the security of Canadian society.
The change adds the word “public” before “health”, and I have no problem with that, but it removes the words “of Canadians”. So now it reads “to protect public health and safety”—removes the words “of Canadians”—“and to maintain the security of Canadian society”.
Now it may be that the words “of Canadians” didn't mean anything initially and therefore their removal doesn't mean anything now, but I was struck by the fact that they were removed. I am going to ask the witnesses if they could assist us in why they might have been removed, and maybe there's no consequence to the fact that they were.