Rathika Sitsabaiesan at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On November 17th, 2014. See this statement in context.

November 17th, 2014 / 5 p.m.

NDP

Rathika Sitsabaiesan NDP Scarborough—Rouge River, ON

Okay. Thank you.

Mr. MacDonald, did you have anything to add to that, or is it the same thing? Okay.

Clauses 172 and 173 were actually in a previous private member's bill, Bill C-585, which the government—I guess I can't say the government—kept on not being debated multiple times when it came up for debate. Now changes that are not really budgetary in nature are showing up in this omnibus budget bill.

Did your department provide any advice to the minister as to how to proceed to include these measures in Bill C-43, and if so, how long has CIC been involved in drafting clauses 172 and 173?

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