Mr. Speaker, witnesses were heard, amendments were proposed, considered, and some were adopted at committee stage.
When the member says she and her party want to expedite the removal of convicted serious foreign criminals, I honestly and regrettably doubt that. At the report stage debate yesterday, all of which I attended, I heard several of her colleagues say that the current threshold in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for a removal order to become effective for a foreign national who has been convicted of a crime carrying a custodial sentence of six months or more was too low and should be raised.
It seems to me that the NDP, at least many of them, want to make it more difficult, not easier, for the government to deport serious convicted foreign criminals, and Canadians do not agree.