Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are suggesting that this process will be accelerated when we appoint more IRB members and refugee lawyers. We are suggesting that more cases will be able to go through, and therefore refugees will be able to obtain a work permit faster and to contribute to the Canadian econom

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's very, very troublesome. I try to talk about it to as many of my peers as I can. I don't understand how, exactly, so much power, which will determine whether one person will be able to live on or not, whether they will be able to construct a life in Canada or not, depends on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Where does the $1.6 billion burden come from?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As my colleague mentioned, we are very worried about the fact that it will cost so much. We got this number from the 2008 Auditor General's report, which says that it costs $70,000 a year to detain a refugee in a detention centre. We are confident that those resources can be spen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had two sessions where we tried to raise awareness about this project. We set up a table where a lot of people pass through, and as I said, we just stopped people and asked them if they had heard about Bill C-31. Most people hadn't heard about it. We told them what it was. Fu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have no answer to that question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Once again, we sincerely thank you for inviting us to share our comments on this bill with you. As my colleague said, this is a good illustration of the enormous potential of our democratic system. That potential will become a true asset if, and only if, you truly take the opinio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We therefore undertook an awareness campaign with the objective not of persuading people to our position, but simply of informing them about the content of Bill C-31. And what happened was that a majority of the students we approached were opposed to the proposed changes. In the