Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the member for moving this concurrence motion, because this is a significant issue.
In my office in Hamilton, we regularly have cases of people with serious immigration problems and this specific problem. We think about the damage that is done to a family when they are split up.
I commend the current Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism very readily, because he has worked with my office on a number of files.
However, the reality is that if a regulation is out of place it should be fixed. The committee has looked at it and it has reached that determination.
One of the things that troubles me is that at the start of this debate the member was reading the story of a couple and somebody from the government side said, “What if they're spies?”
It is not black and white. It is a reality of good, honest, hard-working people who marry Canadians who are in this country legally and then all of a sudden through this quirk they are moved off.
I ask the member what her reaction is to that backbencher's statement.