Colleagues, what I think happened here was that we had a series of amendments that, if one passed, we would be moving another one.
That said, I want to take issue with one comment that the official made. I think that, if somebody commits a serious crime in Canada—and some of the changes that we were suggesting to make under serious criminality clarified some pretty serious crimes—I'm not sure that they would be considered a vulnerable person anymore.
If somebody's seeking refugee protection in Canada, maybe they shouldn't commit a serious crime. It disheartens me to hear public officials dismissing a principle like that, and perhaps they should be a little more judicious in how they describe these circumstances.
I'll leave it at that. I think that they would give more confidence to the public if they tried to balance some of their words with regard to common-sense principles, which we haven't heard a lot of out of the Immigration and Refugee Department in some time.