My problem here is that there are a lot of mysteries that we've seen. We've had department officials.... Frankly, guys, the answers you gave us on examples and reasons for wanting us to devolve our powers to you were not great. Then there's this mystery line item in the levels about changing or granting permanent resident status to a mystery group of people.
If what the official says is true, they will have no problem supporting this, because if they have no intention of using this, then we should be able to say:
For greater certainty, the authority to vary under subsection (1) does not include the authority to grant permanent resident status.
We're just agreeing. We're violently agreeing here.
Colleagues, again, God bless, I would like, as a legislator.... The IRCC is asking us to devolve a lot of powers to them after overseeing a process that has led to 300,000 asylum claims backlogged and three million temporary residents in the country. This is serious. If there is no plan to use this, colleagues, then nobody around here should have any problem putting this insurance clause in. I'm just saying.