Bill S-245

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…ach. We supported fixing the lost Canadians via the targeted bill that we saw from the other place, Bill S-245, but Bill C-3 goes too far. Bill C-3 actually weakens Canadian citizenship. It would devalue Canadian citizenship for everyone else. It would open the door by eliminating the ties to Canada as a requ…

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…ate member's bill from a wonderful senator of ours, Senator Yonah Martin, that was heavily amended, Bill S-245. I want to say that the reason we are here is that in 2023, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that the first-generation limit was unconstitutional. The government chose, in this case, not to appeal it…

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…e first version of the bill that we have seen. We had Bill C-71 in the last Parliament. We also had Bill S-245, a Conservative Senate private member's bill go through, which was gutted and hijacked by the Liberals and the NDP. I will use the example of the criminal background check's being a requirement. We h…

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…lation said were Canadians. Senator Yonah Martin put forward a bill to address exactly that. It was Bill S-245; that is the numbering they have over in the Senate. It took a targeted approach to make sure those wrongs were righted and that these people did have a pathway to Canadian citizenship, and it was ve…

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… is very good at copying previous legislation, why do the Liberals not just copy the previous bill, Bill S-245? It would solve the most immediate problems that they see as problems without opening a great swath that Canadians will not support.

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…ion. Members of Parliament should have a right to review it. When one of those previous renditions, Bill S-245, came up for debate, there were no fewer than 40 amendments moved by Conservative members, all of which the Liberal-NDP coalition of the day voted against. They did not want to consider any one of th…

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…ery well that this has gone through committee in the past, with both Bill C-71 and the Senate bill, Bill S-245. The member also knows very well that for us to consider legislation to fix what he is saying and address the issue of the court ruling, we need to fix this legislation. With the way it is written, i…

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… and other places. For example, back in 2022, Senator Yonah Martin introduced a Senate public bill, Bill S-245, to address the age 28 issue. Her work was supported by those personally affected by the bill, by legal scholars and by policy-makers across the political spectrum. Bill S-245 was then amended by the…

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…rted that. I supported that in the previous Parliament. That was the whole purpose of the senator's Bill S-245. It was to fix that problem. That was a simple bill that came forward. Then that member and her party, along with members of the NDP, hijacked that private member's bill, adding a whole bunch of thin…

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…8. This was also the original content of Conservative Senator Yonah Martin's private member's bill, Bill S-245, which plays a more direct role in addressing concerns about the first-generation rule. What I want to emphasize is how specific the problem was and how tailored the solution could be. What we have i…