Costas Menegakis at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On May 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 2nd, 2012 / 12:30 p.m.

Conservative

Costas Menegakis Conservative Richmond Hill, ON

My questions are directed to Mr. Grubel right now, because I want to get to the bottom of a few things.

Mr. Grubel, currently we get about 25% more refugee claims from democratically elected European Union countries than refugee claims from Africa or Asia. Does that make sense to you?

I might add that the European Union, as you may very well know, is comprised of 27 countries. The first choice, one would think, is that the folks would have 26 other countries they could readily go to. What would you have to add to that comment?

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