Citizenship and Immigration Committee on April 30th, 2015

Evidence of meeting #45 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was marriage.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill S-7, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

MPs speaking

David Tilson
Costas Menegakis
Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe
John McCallum
Chungsen Leung
Irene Mathyssen
Devinder Shory
Jim Eglinski

Also speaking

Laila Fakhri  As an Individual
Richard Kurland  Lawyer and Policy Analyst, As an Individual
J. Michael Spratt  Criminal Lawyer, Abergel Goldstein and Partners, As an Individual
Kamal Dhillon  Author, Black and Blue Sari, As an Individual
Madeline Lamboley  Ph.D. candidate in criminology, As an Individual

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Conservative

Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB

I would like to thank all the witnesses—

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative David Tilson

The bells are ringing and will go for 30 minutes. I'm thinking two more questions.

Can I have unanimous consent that we continue for the next few minutes?

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Some hon. members

No.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative David Tilson

There is no agreement.

To our witnesses, the bells are ringing—it sounds like an old song—but we have to go and vote because of that. On behalf of the committee, I want to thank you for coming, helping us out, and giving us your interpretation of what this bill is, or what it should be. Thank you very much on behalf of the committee.

This meeting is adjourned.