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May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You have to divorce yourself from the individual cases sometimes and come up a little bit in terms of how you look at it. The challenge becomes one of trying to treat people the same as they work their way through it. Sorry, I had a mental lapse, could you—

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Really it boils down to two kinds of profit motives. First of all, yes, there is the monetary, but it may not be direct monetary. There's a simplistic one, where they have some kind of cash or money or a tradeable something, such as gold or whatever, and they pay for passage. Th

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, all right. I think we easily have one of the most generous packages for new immigrants and refugee claimants in the world. For example, with the Sun Sea, they didn't come here directly from Sri Lanka; they came from another place. You could almost argue that they were upgrad

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, “easy money” is a bit of a loaded term perhaps, but I think we take great care of people who come here.

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Based on the reaction the Canadian public had, which was published, for example, in the Toronto Star, three out of five Canadians—60%—said that we should have just turned the boat around and sent it away. God forbid—the thing probably would have sunk, and then we would have had t

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Good morning to all members of the committee and all those who are witness to these proceedings. I recently travelled to Europe with my sweetheart and visited the grave of one of her relatives who died at Passchendaele in Belgium. It's very emotional seein

May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting

Michael Deakin-Macey