Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank my colleague Ms. Rempel Garner for introducing this amendment.
This requires some transparency from the Minister of Immigration over whether the government is upholding a core obligation for national security, and for the integrity of the immigration and refugee system, and that is removing people who have no legal right to be in Canada.
Ms. Rempel Garner mentioned a story that came out a couple of months ago in which there were, I believe, “600 foreign nationals with criminal convictions” whom the federal government was failing to remove from this country because it didn't know where they were.
I remember the Auditor General also, about five years ago, revealed that the CBSA had lost track of 34,000 foreign nationals who were slated for removal—people who had no legal right to be in Canada. This itself makes a mockery of our immigration system and of our sovereignty as a nation.
We absolutely need transparency so that we are able to fix these issues. We've seen that, over the last several years, we can't actually deal with these problems because we don't get the data we need to make these decisions.
I will be very much supporting this motion, and I hope the government does as well.