Citizenship and Immigration committee  But if it's temporary resident status for anyone who is resident here and filing taxes here under temporary resident status, I think that should count as half-time, under the exact same process that it is now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For conditional permanent residence, I think that should count as full-time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My parents also went under the five-year rule. I don't have any problem with extending it from three to four years. Four years is a reasonable amount of time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If it's temporary resident status of any nature outside of a visitor, because I think a tourist shouldn't get a half-credit—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I support the provisions to revoke citizenship for those offences, but again, with the proviso that these are Canadian courts, that they've had the opportunity to defend themselves in court, the protection of the charter, the right to counsel—all those things. Those types of of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Theoretically, if they're equivalent I have no problem with it. The difficulty is the way in which it would be administered. It would be administered by an officer. It wouldn't be administered by the court. There wouldn't be a finding of guilt here for the equivalency, and becaus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have a problem, Mr. Opitz, with the equivalency, but I think there has to be something more than just saying that we will have a bureaucrat make that decision. There has to be some other guidelines and more than just what is equivalency. If you take a look at something

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to address three issues with you today. First, I would like to support the proposal to change the residency requirement for citizenship from three out of four to four out of six years. I believe that the longer an individual lives, works, or