Evidence of meeting #16 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was families.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Founder and Co-Chair, Collingwood Syrian Sponsorship Committee
You all will be getting a copy of my little dissertation here, so that's great.
I do want to comment on the travel expenses issue. To my understanding, we're the only country in the world that charges refugees travel expenses.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Thank you, Mr. Vincent.
Ms. Woods or Mr. Clarke, would you comment?
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Executive Director, Action Réfugiés Montréal
I have five points and 20 seconds.
Number one is language training.
Number two would be the BVOR capacity. That's the frustration. People have all wanted to go, and there are not enough BVORs. I would avoid the yoyo, which was what happened for the community groups: they were told to wait and wait, and then all of a sudden thousands of people came, so they went out and rented apartments, and then this changed—
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Executive Director, Action Réfugiés Montréal
The last thing is the RSTP, to make sure Ms. Davis gets more money.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Thank you.
I'd like to thank the panel for appearing before us. Thank you for the tremendous work you are doing and trying to do. I would particularly like to thank Mr. Alhendawi for appearing and making such a poignant presentation.
All of your presentations will help us in our report and hopefully help us in doing a better job going forward. Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.