Thank you, Chair.
I move that Bill C-12 be amended by adding after line 23 on page 18 the following new clause:
39.1 Paragraph 55(3)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(b) has reasonable grounds to suspect that the permanent resident or the foreign national is inadmissible on grounds of security, violating human or international rights, sanctions, serious criminality, transborder criminality or organized criminality.
Colleagues, this is a knock-down effect of our previous amendment, which amended the definition of serious criminality. This would be a harmonizing amendment to that.
I just want to reiterate some of the arguments I made earlier. I think that this is a juncture in Canadian history, particularly when we've seen a massive surge of non-citizens to Canada in the last several years and many media stories.... There are many people who come to Canada. Most of them adhere to the law, and that's great, but we have seen a lot of news stories to the effect that serious criminality among non-citizens is not resulting in the intended effect of the law, and I propose this amendment.
Thank you.