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Citizenship and Immigration committee No, they are not immediately given permanent residency. There's a five-year delay.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's a five-year delay from the date of the claim. Once designated foreign nationals are recognized, they do not get permanent residency under this bill.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee If they are outside the country.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee If they are outside the country. What's more, because of the denial of travel documents during those five years, they can't even visit their family outside of Canada. It's a forced family separation.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, but if they could travel, they could at least visit their family in another country.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, I am. To a certain extent, I am presenting my plea to you as parliamentarians, because there is certainly a lot more connection between parliamentarians than there is among bureaucrats on these issues.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee My answer is yes, I'm 100% behind the push to promote respect for human rights in Sri Lanka. I think that's valid. I think it's important. I think what parliamentarians have done is good. The problem is it's inconsistent with Bill C-31. That's the problem.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for inviting me. I would like to address only one of the many changes proposed by Bill C-31—the provision that deals with designated foreign nationals, which you've heard about before. I am a former chair of the immigration law section of the Canadian Bar Association,
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee Section 167 right now, as I understand it, deals only with the hearing itself and not with the preliminary interview. If you want the legislation to have something that deals specifically with the interview, there should be a specific provision inserted.
May 25th, 2010Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm happy to try to answer that. The bill itself doesn't address that issue, and there has been some concern. Elsewhere in the legislation it says you have a right to have a lawyer before the Immigration and Refugee Board for the actual hearings. In my view, it would be a useful
May 25th, 2010Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have one concluding sentence.
May 25th, 2010Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee The net result is deterioration. Thank you.
May 25th, 2010Committee meeting
David Matas
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much. Bill C-11 is entitled the Balanced Refugee Reform Act. It supposedly balances improved protection for refugees with enhanced prevention of abuse. For the bill to realize its aim of balance, five requirements must be met: one, there must be a need to improv
May 25th, 2010Committee meeting
David Matas
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Perhaps I could also echo what Mr. Amyot said. This is not a partisan issue, because human rights are not partisan principles; they're accepted by all parties in principle. I accept that all the parties are trying in their own ways to come to grips with respect for those principl
May 5th, 2008Committee meeting
David Matas