Rathika Sitsabaiesan at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On November 28th, 2013. See this statement in context.

November 28th, 2013 / 12:20 p.m.

NDP

Rathika Sitsabaiesan NDP Scarborough—Rouge River, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you all for coming, our return guests, and our new guests.

Congratulations to you, Ms. Biguzs.

The supplementary estimates outlines transfers from CBSA to CIC, or from CIC and Transport to the RCMP for activities related to the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.

But what we don't actually see are credits to ensure that refugees and immigrants continue to have fair access to health services for family reunification, services that some would argue actually help refugees and immigrants integrate into our Canadian society.

Could you help inform the committee which programs and administrative services are having money taken away from then in order for these transfers to happen?

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