Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've heard from many people who've often wondered why we have Citizenship and Immigration as one department instead of having two, because it seems to be overwhelming for them. You're asking them to deal with two jobs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  MP Russ Hiebert just stepped right up to the podium and got the two ministries together working on us, and we were very grateful. I am regularly now getting e-mails from MPs asking me to bring them up to snuff on what they're doing, but I have to be honest--I have them on my dat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Especially the military.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I apologize, since I didn't realize that I should have gotten to you sooner. We've had people working on all of the areas where Canadians worked from 1947 to 1977. In my estimates, there are well over a million. My figure for the Canadian military base is 110,000; that's for on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just like to say that given the computer technology of the world today, there should be some way this government can pull up the names of all of the people who were registered abroad and notify them that they are in this scenario. I can only say that whoever goes to fi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For us, the major issue has always been that we were never told. I think, also, there's the issue of a clarification of what exactly a citizenship card is. Anybody who has come up to me has gotten really angry and said: “I am a Canadian; they tell me I'm a Canadian.” But when I e

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have a degree in customs law and I've had to deal with amendments to acts that have created more problems than anything. Whoever is going to be working on this and making the changes should be somebody who has a full understanding of exactly what the problems are. No more quick

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for allowing me to speak. I represent the adult children of the Canadian military who were born during the period of 1947 to 1977. We lived in a very unique time, the Cold War era, when we sent Canadians and their families to a multitude of overseas bases. As per the