Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for bringing the motion forward.
The question I have for him is really moving outside the numbers. We have seen this happen over and over again. In 1985, when women were able to regain status under Bill C-31, what we saw was the government underestimate the resources and the amount of time that were required in order to process those applications and the resources that needed to go back to communities.
We saw the residential schools system, where again there was an underestimation of the number of applicants and the amount of time that it was going to take to process them.
Now, of course, we have another situation in which the same kind of thing is playing out.
Moving beyond the numbers, I wonder if the member could talk about what being held up and not being able to get this settled would mean to people in their daily lives.