Mr. Speaker, on immigration, there needs to be consistency between the various legislative measures.
Those hoping to become naturalized have to fulfill certain requirements. They are required to have lived in the country for 1,095 days over a period of five years. A security assessment is done, a language test is administered, and a citizenship test is completed. Those are the rules.
That is exactly why want we want the same criteria to be applied when normalizing the citizenship of people who may never have set foot on Canadian soil.
I would like my colleague to explain to me how the government can come to the conclusion that these standards are valid for a naturalized person, but that in the situation before us, suddenly, they no longer make sense, and citizenship could be granted to almost anyone.