Citizenship and Immigration committee  Stateless persons do remain in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are situations that our office is actually working on together with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. We are working with the government to try to find solutions for persons who are stateless—and they do remain in Canada. They come to Canada through the refugee program. T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course, there is no place to which they can be removed. So as part of its 1961 mandate obligations, UNHCR is contacting the government to try to find a solution, because these people are without rights in Canada, at the margin of society, who cannot be removed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So this is exactly our work on the prevention of statelessness, which we are doing together with the government.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, with respect to the technicalities of different countries, of course, it would be very difficult for me to answer on each of them. I can certainly support the work of this committee by sending some materials later on with respect to certain countries, and especially the cou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. We are part of that exercise.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Refugees are not stateless—the majority are not. Some stateless persons may be refugees, and in that case a stateless person who applies for refugee status and is recognized as a refugee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Every country applies its own citizenship and nationality laws in isolation, probably. I don't know if there are discussions of some kind. That may be possible. But for UNHCR, as I said, the basic principle is that acts should not result in statelessness. I don't know how to comm

Citizenship and Immigration committee  True. Who would be the—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Who would be the first? I do not have a comment on that. In the case you say, who would be the first, of the two countries—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —to revoke citizenship? I don't think I have an answer to that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. As I said from the outset, we support, acknowledge, and appreciate the minister's comment with respect to making amendments to this bill that would avoid the risk of statelessness. I've also indicated in my recommendation that removing the words “or a legal resi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I said, in article 8 of the convention there is the possibility for a state to revoke citizenship on the basis of acts that impact on loyalty to the state. That exception is not applicable to the bill, because Canada did not make the declaration at the time of accession to the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't have a comment directly in relation to it. My comment was related to the prevention of statelessness, which you addressed correctly. As I said, in international human rights there are situations wherein the law foresees differences in treatment depending on specific