Mr. Speaker, I will quote an excerpt of an article I just read on this subject:
The federal government has always had the authority to strip landed immigrant status from a permanent resident convicted of a serious crime, but Bill C-43 would allow appeals only for those sentenced to less than six months in jail, down from the current threshold of two years.
This authority already exists in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. So is this bill necessary? That is what I was asking.