Mr. Speaker, Joe Taylor, the son of a second world war Canadian soldier, was born in England in 1945. He and his mother became Canadian citizens when they landed in Halifax in 1946. When the marriage failed, he and his mother returned to England.
When Mr. Taylor moved back to Canada several years ago, he was denied citizenship rights because he was born out of wedlock.
Does the minister really believe it is justifiable in this day and age to discriminate against children born out of wedlock?