Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, a person from Turkey.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think he is....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  His objections are in principle. It's not only--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  He has objections to killing--period.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is Turkey.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. First of all, I did hand out a three-page paper. Unfortunately, it's only in English. I hope it is at your place. I'd like to make four points in these opening remarks. The first three are very brief. The first point is simply that our organization represents a maj

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Such certificates will not be declared invalid; people will simply be allowed to continue to hold them. That will be something like an amnesty. It would solve a lot of problems. That's a matter of policy; you don't need an amendment to the act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. By way of a solution, I think there could be a policy that citizenship certificates will not be declared invalid if the only reason for doing so is that an ancestor had only a church marriage and not a civil marriage.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would generally agree with the idea of trying to do a few things immediately and address other things further on.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You asked whether there's an attitudinal problem. It may sound contradictory, since I've expressed concerns about policies and regulations, but at a personal level we have had a remarkably good relationship with officials from Citizenship and Immigration Canada for a long time. A

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the loss retention provision, the government has now become somewhat more proactive, but there are still thousands of people who have certificates and who don't know, and so on. I would like to make a little comment on your observation that the minister is acting to deal with

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it would be an improvement on the present, simply because what exists now is that people have certificates and then are told they are not permanently valid. Some officials have told them that yes, they are permanently valid, but the law says they're not permanently valid.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would like to express regret that I cannot respond in French well. Your point about adequate notification is fundamental. The loss-retention provision, as I've indicated, is generous in itself. We have no quarrel with the provision. It's the fact that people were

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I don't have the current act right in front of me, but if you look at section 8, in my larger brief, at the very end, I refer to a possible amendment to section 8. The first overall paragraph would stay almost as it is, but then there are a couple of subpoints that would s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We definitely need changes—serious changes. Whether they come in a whole new act—I've watched this process and I've been involved in this work for 30 years, if I may say so. I know that different governments have tried to bring in whole acts and they get bogged down. With a minor