Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend and colleague for sharing with us about his time in uniform. I am really grateful to our men and women in uniform for the rights and freedoms that we have and, as has been mentioned numerous times today, with rights and freedoms come responsibilities.
I recognize that citizenship is definitely a privilege. It is an honour. My family immigrated to Canada, and I was born and raised here, but what I find interesting is that many individuals who are my age also immigrated to Canada when they were very young; they have been in Canada their whole life and they work for Canadian businesses. When they go abroad and perhaps expand their family, those children do not have the right to citizenship.
Today, there is a lot of conversation in regard to security. If a second-generation, not-born–Canadian person is abroad and gives birth to a baby, that baby would not have any reason to have securities done. The opposition is talking about securities.
Could the member just elaborate on the importance of recognizing that a child of a Canadian citizen is a citizen?