Citizenship and Immigration Committee on June 7th, 2007

Evidence of meeting #63 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 board.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Order in Council appointment of Ken Sandhu and Lois Delia Figg

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ken Sandhu Full-time member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, Deputy Chairperson of the Refugee Protection Division, As an Individual

Lois D. Figg Full-time member and Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Immigration and Refugee Board, Toronto Regional Office, As an Individual

Krista Daley Senior General Counsel, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Samy Agha

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

As soon as possible.

The notice of motion by Mr. Andrew Telegdi is that the 10th report, on citizenship revocation, and the 12th report, on updating Canada's citizenship laws, of this committee in the first session of the 38th Parliament be adopted as reported in this session, and that the chair present the report to the House.

This was the stood motion, if I'm correct in assuming that.

1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Andrew Telegdi Liberal Kitchener—Waterloo, ON

Basically, Mr. Chair, we're going to be dealing with citizenship legislation. We have spent millions of dollars gathering information in previous parliaments, and I think it's important that we also respect the witnesses for giving up their time and contribution for the work of the committee and adopt these reports, because they will serve us very well in terms of the future work on citizenship.

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

Are there further comments, or is there discussion, on the motion as currently before us here?

Mr. Siksay.

1:05 p.m.

NDP

Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC

Chair, I want to say I am going to support this motion, but not without some hesitation. I do strongly support the work we did in the previous Parliament and stand by that work; it's been very important, but I also think that other members who weren't present for that should have the opportunity to see it.

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

Okay.

(Motion agreed to)

1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Jim Karygiannis Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt, ON

Just for clarification on my motion, will it be reported to the House tomorrow, Mr. Chair?

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

I don't know. Maybe. We'll have to wait and see. Possibly. I think it might.

1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Andrew Telegdi Liberal Kitchener—Waterloo, ON

Certainly mine has no dissenting opinions, so we can have it put in quickly.

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

The meeting is adjourned.