Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the language issue that we brought up was the French and English. I think that mandatory...relates back to one of the questions that one of the committee members asked in terms of what could be done during this process. I think that the mandatory languages or skills could

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think some very valid, relevant points have been made about the application process in third world countries, but I think what we wanted to talk about was the monitoring here. One of the most important things, in terms of resources or what can be provided from the Canadian side

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the biggest issues I think is the issue of women or these spouses actually being able to approach them at all. That might have something to do with this idea that the sensitivity or just the cultural knowledge isn't there in terms of how to deal with these women once they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I think we agreed that the expedited...providing them with some kind of status so that they can stay here, and the reduction of the bureaucracy. I think that one of the biggest things that we see in the breakdown of marriages is that people believe that they can get rid of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My name is Patmeena Sabit. I'm a program assistant with Ms. Aref at the Afghan Women's Centre. One of the things I wanted to clarify, just speaking to the issue of the illness. What I think Ms. Aref was saying was that women are given wrong information, for example, by their hus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the things Ms. Aref sees and we see at the Afghan Women's Centre....Our experience is that the two years conditional residency or permanent residency, the way it might be addressed is if, for example, these women themselves were talked to or counselled by government worker