International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, and good morning. Further to Mayor Corrigan's cited concerns for municipalities, I would like to say although he speaks specifically for the City of Burnaby, I believe that the City of Burnaby's concerns are shared by municipalities th

International Trade committee  I will then, Mr. Chair, by saying that given what Mayor Corrigan has said and what I have stated, and everything we know about CETA, Burnaby is concerned. Clearly, our concern is broadly shared by municipalities across our country. As Burnaby continues to work towards exposing al

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Basically, through our community we got together all the service providers, non-profit organizations that face these challenges every day, and this was one of the models we came up with. When we discussed this with some of the federal counterparts, our MPs and MLAs, it was su

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't believe there is any. We don't know of any place where the refugees and immigrants can go directly right in Burnaby to seek any services. To my knowledge, there aren't any at all. The community services like non-profit organizations are trying to take the lead to help the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, I missed the first part of the question. I was trying to get myself adjusted to the translator. One thing we did was have the community service providers--particularly non-profit organizations--come together, and they basically have been saying to the city that we ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll let Basil answer that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're receiving very little; in fact, I think it's just the standard services. We're finding that the difficulty people are feeling everyday is that they are just not getting the basic services. What they are getting is through what we can provide unofficially from our own resour

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Bonjour, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. First, on behalf of the City of Burnaby, I would like to thank you for inviting us to address your committee. I am Sav Dhaliwal, a councillor of the City of Burnaby.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Once again, thank you. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to speak with you this morning. After hearing from Basil Luksun and me, you will hear two separate but very related presentations: one from Diana Mumford, a school trustee in Burnaby, and the other from Karen Roth, a