Mr. Speaker, in my response to the member for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, I said “process of harmonization”. I meant the process of naturalization.
With respect to the question posed by the parliamentary secretary, this is what the Liberals do all the time. They get a lower court decision that they happen to like for ideological reasons. They do not fulfill their responsibility, which is to defend laws passed by Parliament, and appeal the decision. Then they say, “We are in a bind. We have no choice. We have to move ahead with legislation.”
It is part of a consistent pattern, and the bottom line is that the government should have appealed the decision. It did not. It brought in a radical badly drafted bill. We have worked to fix it. Let us keep the amendments in the bill, and we can move forward on that basis.