Citizenship and Immigration Committee on April 9th, 2008

Evidence of meeting #28 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was employers.

On the agenda

Undocumented and Temporary Foreign Workers

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Colin Busby Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute

Luin Goldring Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, As an Individual

Ramesh Dheer National President, International Association of Immigration Practitioners

Silvia Bendo Executive Director, Construction Recruitment External Workers Services (CREWS) and Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD)

Jenna L. Hennebry Assistant Professor, Departments of Communication Studies and Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual

Joyce Reynolds Executive Vice-President, Government Affairs, Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association

Debbie Douglas Executive Director, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants

Roberto Jovel Coordinator, Policy and Research, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants

Sima Zerehi Coordinator, Communications, Status Now! Campaign in Defense of Undocumented Immigrants

Marie Chen Staff Lawyer, African Canadian Legal Clinic

4 p.m.

Staff Lawyer, African Canadian Legal Clinic

Marie Chen

Ditto to everything that was said before me. I also think we need to recognize in principle that if we need people to come here and work for us, we need to recognize their worth. We need to allow them to settle here permanently, not dispose of them after they have worked and make them have to leave.

4 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle

Thank you.

Thank you to all of you for being here and presenting some very interesting views. We'll be making recommendations, and I'm sure your views will be taken into consideration. Thank you.

The meeting is adjourned.