Evidence of meeting #17 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was refugees.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Member, Canadian Council for Refugees
I would like to suggest that as you continue with your hearings, I'm sure you are aware there's an NGO and government committee on which there are some elected sponsorship agreement-holder representatives. They sit with representatives from the department, and I would encourage you to invite them to come to speak to you as well.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
Thank you very much for coming here today. It was really interesting. You've given our committee a great deal to digest, and hopefully we'll be able to help you out in some way. And thank you for the very good work that you're doing.
What are the start dates for the Montreal conference that you mentioned?
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Executive Director, Canadian Council for Refugees
It's the 23rd to the 25th. There will be copies of the flyer coming to the MPs in their mail, and I also have some copies here.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
Could you also send it to the clerk? Thank you.
We will adjourn for a couple of moments to give the witnesses time to move off.
Bill.
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NDP
Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Mr. Chair, before you do that, I wonder if the parliamentary secretary did want to respond to the question of Mr. Ellis and the breaking news story this morning. I did ask if he wanted to do that, and I wonder if he might want to do that now.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
Maybe we'll wait for a moment or two until our witnesses go, and then we'll get into that and into the motions as well.
We'll suspend for five minutes.
[Proceedings continue in camera]