Mr. Speaker, as I have indicated before, this is indeed an anti-immigrant bill.
At the end of the day, if it was just about serious criminals and deporting serious criminals who are permanent residents, I suspect the government would have a lot more support.
It goes far beyond that. To illustrate that in the form of an example, if someone is part of a family in a country abroad and one of the children immigrates to Canada, and if that person wants to visit that child someday but has another dependent who is involved in some sort of gang activity, that parent will not be able to come to Canada to visit the child. That is this serious crime bill that the government is talking about.
I am wondering if the member might want to comment on the fact that this bill does a lot more than just deal with serious crime by permanent residents?