Citizenship and Immigration committee  The expression “preferential treatment” may not be appropriate, but what we are saying to Citizenship and Immigration Canada is that if someone is born abroad and voluntarily serves in the Canadian military, he should simply be able to apply for Canadian citizenship without going

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. In fact, it's new.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The only thing we can state, I guess, unequivocally is that when we came here and prepared for our appearance, we looked at the bill, we looked at your unanimous report, and we looked at the recommendations in the unanimous report, which said certain things. We quoted them to you

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If that is the solution to get this bill through, I think you will certainly have our support, no doubt.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Get the bill passed. I think it's been on the back burner a long time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe the honourable Mr. Karygiannis is quite correct, that being able to embrace his grandchildren as Canadians is an important factor. And if we're only talking about 10,000 people—and I can't really say what the number is, because I can't twist them that fast in my mind—then m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have read the report, and the recommendations are in front of us. We even quoted some of them in our presentation. In short, I would say that the approach taken in the report was appropriate in terms of resolving the problem.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a copy of the bill as debated at first reading. I am not a lawyer and the approach is fairly complex, but it does seem to me to be consistent with your recommendations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Those recommendations are taken from your report.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe that Bill C-37 deals with this matter in sub-section 2(1) of the legislation, which proposes a new paragraph (g), which reads as follows: (g) the person was born outside Canada before February 15, 1977 to a parent who was a citizen at the time of the birth and the per

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it would mean that the form would no longer be necessary.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My head is spinning listening to the numbers, I must admit, so I will have to sit down and look at these numbers. If I understand correctly, you're saying that projecting the number of second generation born aboard, we can anticipate--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm saying second generation, about 10,000 or so, by 2010.