Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a few points I'd like to make. First of all, I'm not sure we're actually talking about a retroactive application; it's more accurately described as retrospective, moving forward in time. That's one technical clarification. Second, whether we're speaking of retroactive

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the honourable member indicated, there is something of a shift intended behind the change in the statutory provision. The provision was always intended to confer a very limited discretion on a removals officer to defer enforcement of the removal order, for example, in emergenc