Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, I do understand there is a main culture of arranged marriages, which is common in India and Pakistan and the Southeast Asian region, so I do not call those arranged marriages forced marriages. What I'm referring to is forced marriages. We have a lot of cases in th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the woman can be separately interviewed away from her ethnic community, where she can easily communicate without being in the presence of her siblings, or spouse, or anyone, that could be one way to determine whether it is a forced marriage or not. Also, in the U.K. they have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all we need to understand the different cultural practices taking place in different countries. Under that shelter many people use forced marriage, which is socially sanctioned in those societies. Even recently a bill was passed in the Pakistan national assembly by the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Honourable members of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, thank you for giving the Muslim Canadian Congress the opportunity to speak on a matter that affects many members of our community and has contributed to the rise of gender apartheid within many Muslim ho