Mr. Speaker, one of the amendments that needs to be made to the bill to prevent endless chain migration, which the bill currently provides for without any sort of consecutive residency requirement, is to ensure that those who the bill applies to spend some sort of substantive length of time in Canada in a consecutive manner. The bill does not apply to that. Right now, ad infinitum, descendants could just apply for citizenship after having spent a thousand days in Canada over the course of their lifetime and then claim health care benefits.
Does the member agree that there should be a consecutive residency requirement of some nature in the bill?