Yesterday

Posted on Twitter Appeared on CP24 with Stephen LeDrew re: the Beyond the Borders Action Plan. http://t.co/2LlO0X1t

Posted on Twitter Spoke @ Conservative Community Council multicultural celebration. Included grt Armenian dance troupe http://t.co/yAZ5gigm

Mentioned by Hill Times (subscription) Optiz received only $1500 in last election, had to take $50000 personal loan ... Mr. Opitz (Etobicoke-Centre, Ont.), a political assistant in the Toronto region to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney (Calgary-Southeast, Alta.) for two years prior to the election, had to finance his campaign with his own personal loan of $50000 and ...

Posted on Twitter Met w/ folks from HIPPY CDA (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters) who do great work w/ immigrant moms: http://t.co/exeuI0xA

Posted on Twitter Did editorial meeting w/ World Journal, one of Canada's 3 large Chinese dailies. http://t.co/FB1irOfQ

Posted on Twitter Stephen Fletcher & I did news conference on progress we're making on Beyond the Border Action Plan. http://t.co/rCk2cu4a

Posted on Twitter Had productive roundtable w/ business community re: Beyond the Borders Action Plan to streamline movement of people across CDA-US border.

Mentioned by Shalom Life Minister Kenney Announces Advisory Council for Holocaust Education Initiative Jason Kenney, Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and MP for the riding of Calgary Southeast announced the members of the Advisory Council for the International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust ...

Two days ago

Mentioned by CBC.ca Finley expected to detail EI changes Thursday Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told CBC News in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday that the high number of employers that are turning to foreign workers because they can't find Canadians to fill vacancies is a problem the government ...

Three days ago

Mentioned by Globe and Mail Time for Harper to bring out the broom? Jason Kenney's Immigration Department was the subject of ridicule for using public servants as stand-in stooges for a citizenship ceremony for which real citizens could not be found. Peter Kent has had many stumbles in the Environment portfolio which, ...

This week

Mentioned by PEJ News UN official sparks debate over Canadian food security The Conservative government struck early, with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggesting De Schutter is wasting his organization's money by visiting a developed country. "Canada sends billion of dollars of food aid to developing countries around the ...

Mentioned by South Asian Link NDP Demands Harper Government Apologize For Komagata Maru Incident Liberal leader Bob Rae joined the call for the Komagata Maur, saying Prime Minister Stephen Harper has yet to acknowledge it in any formal sense and his Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney has explicitly said that no such apology will happen.

A week ago

Spoke in the House on Citizenship and Immigration Mr. Speaker, when this government came to office in 2006, after 13 years of Liberal neglect and incompetence with respect to our immigration system, we inherited ...

Spoke in the House on Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House to continue the debate on Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act. Canada and the ...

Spoke in the House on Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, a few moments ago the member for Winnipeg North characterized as heartless and cruel the efforts to finally move toward a fast immigration system ...

Voted No on Vote #224 That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: ( a) recognize the contributions that the baby ...

Voted Yes on Vote #223 on Bill C-316 Amend the Employment Insurance Act (incarceration)

Voted Yes on Vote #222 on Bill C-316 Amend the Employment Insurance Act (incarceration)

Voted No on Vote #221 on Bill C-316 Amend the Employment Insurance Act (incarceration)

Voted No on Vote #220 That, in the opinion of the House, the Budget legislation guts the environmental assessment and fisheries laws, leaving ...

Spoke in the House on Citizenship and Immigration Mr. Speaker, I assure the hon. member that we are hardly new to the idea of efforts to defraud Canada's immigration system. There are always people ...

Spoke in the House on Canadian Chinese Community Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate an important anniversary in the history of our Parliament and of the pioneers of Canada's Chinese community. Sixty-five years ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Health Mr. Speaker, with respect to refugees, this government is increasing by 20% the number of resettled refugees that we accept from the around the world and ...

Spoke in the House on Citizenship and Immigration Mr. Speaker, it gets stranger and stranger over there. We are, in fact, completely depoliticizing the process for the refugee protection division. In the future, that ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Immigration Madam Speaker, we are doing no such thing. We are not removing visa services from any country. We are doing things more efficiently than in the ...

Three months ago

Introduced legislation Government bill C-31 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Government bill C-56 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Introduced legislation Government bill C-37 An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act

Introduced legislation Government bill C-35 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Statements in the House