Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a very quick question—and it is a personal one.
In May of 2015, my daughter and her family were in Europe and they lost their passports. My son-in-law doesn't really matter in this issue, because he was not a Canadian citizen, but my daughter and my grandson were—and this was a seven-month-old child.
They went to the Canadian embassy to get replacements and it ended up costing them close to $1,000, for my daughter and my grandson. When they arrived back in Canada, they had to replace them again. Then my daughter had to replace it again two years later because they wouldn't give her a permanent passport until she produced proof of citizenship. I had no idea where her citizenship card was. She was two and a half months old when she became a citizen. She was born abroad but I was a Canadian citizen, so she did have a Canadian citizenship card. I had lost it.
Anyway, just to make the story short, it ended up costing a fortune to replace those two passports, and I really don't understand why. Nobody was ever capable of explaining to me what those charges were for. As far as I know, it's still going on, that it costs five to six times the cost of a normal passport to replace the passport abroad.