Citizenship and Immigration Committee on May 7th, 2012

Evidence of meeting #40 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was c-31.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Catherine Dauvergne Canada Research Chair in Migration Law, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, As an Individual

Sharryn Aiken Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, As an Individual

Kelsey Angeley Student, B. Refuge, McGill University

Karina Fortier Student, B. Refuge, McGill University

Alex Neve Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada, Amnesty International

Béatrice Vaugrante Executive Director, Amnesty International Canada Francophone, Amnesty International

Christoph Ehrentraut Counsellor, European Harmonization Unit, Federal Government of Germany

Excellency Bernhard Brinkmann Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to Canada

Anja Klabundt Counsellor, European Harmonization Unit, Ministry of the Interior, Federal Government of Germany

Roland Brumberg Counsellor, Immigration Law Unit, Federal Government of Germany

Ioana Patrascu Legal Officer, Directorate General, Home Affairs, Asylum Unit, European Commission

Angela Martini Policy Officer, Directorate General, Home Affairs, Border Management and Return Policy Unit, European Commission

Noon

Counsellor, Immigration Law Unit, Federal Government of Germany

Roland Brumberg

Yes, we do that.

Noon

Conservative

The Chair Conservative David Tilson

That's it. I'm sorry, we're over time.

Mr. Brumberg, Ms. Klabundt from Germany, and I can't recall the third person, thank you for your presentations.

Your Excellency, as usual, you've given us great comments. And particularly to Angela Martini, I'll never forget that name—it's a great name. I want to thank all of you from the European Commission for coming today and making your presentations to us.

We will reconvene at 3:30 this afternoon.

This meeting is now adjourned.