Thank you, Chair.
We're getting there, colleagues.
I move that Bill C-12, in clause 72, be amended by adding after line 9 on page 30 the following:
(1.1) For greater certainty, the authority to vary under subsection (1) does not include the authority to grant permanent resident status.
To be clear, colleagues, what we approved as an amendment before was that we prohibited individual officers from using these powers as laid out in the amendment individually. Now we are prohibiting on the same principle for en masse decisions. It is even more important that we pass this. If the officials truly are not going to use this to grant permanent resident status, then we should support this amendment.
It just duplicates the principle we had in the earlier amendment to this particular clause. I hope colleagues will support it.