Mr. Speaker, I find it rather laughable that a two-year old child or a child who is just a baby would have choices that it could intelligently make. Let me quote the auditor general. December 1997, chapter 25, paragraph 129:
Despite the lack of departmental statistics on the number of such claimants, from our analysis we were able to determine that of the 31,200 individuals who applied for refugee status between 1993 and 1997 and had their claims denied, approximately 2,300 were granted permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Most of these individuals were given favourable decisions because they were married to permanent residents or Canadian citizens.
Right there, the auditor general confirmed it to us.