Evidence of meeting #25 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was cases.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
I understand that my colleague wants the minister's job, but he's talking over her now. Oh my God.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
Ms. Rempel Garner, please calm down.
Mr. Fragiskatos, go ahead on a point of order.
Liberal
Peter Fragiskatos Liberal London Centre, ON
Members have time to ask questions. Of course I respect that, but let's focus on policy.
Conservative
Liberal
Liberal
Peter Fragiskatos Liberal London Centre, ON
We should focus, of course, on policy and not turn this into personal issues.
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
This is not a point of order. These are Liberal ministers trying to—
Conservative
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
—because this woman can't answer basic questions on her file.
Liberal
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Don't tell a woman to calm down. That's very sexist. It's ridiculous.
Liberal
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
I understand why your colleagues, Lena, went to the CBC and said that you don't take questions and they don't like you and think you're doing a bad job. It's because you need people to interject over top of you to answer basic questions.
You should do better. You should tell Patty not to kowtow to Tim Hortons. You should tell Sean not to allow judges to give leniency to non-citizen criminals. That's your job, and you're not doing it. You are a bad minister.
Liberal
Lena Metlege Diab Liberal Halifax West, NS
We are doing our job, and you're a bad performer. Perhaps you should go back to performances.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
Thank you, Ms. Rempel Garner.
Thank you, Minister.
Next we have five minutes for Ms. Zahid.
Liberal
Salma Zahid Liberal Scarborough Centre—Don Valley East, ON
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister and officials, for appearing before the committee.
Minister, being that I'm a member of Parliament from Toronto and am seeing funding of nearly $63 million related to supporting asylum claimants in Toronto, could you please talk about this funding and how we are working with the City of Toronto to transition people into stable, long-term housing and reduce the strain on Toronto's shelter system?
Liberal
Lena Metlege Diab Liberal Halifax West, NS
In the supplementary estimates (C), there is an amount for the transitioning of people for the City of Toronto, and not just for asylum. It's also for others who are using the system. It is a temporary measure to transition people.
I'm proud to say that under my watch, there are no asylum claimants in any hotels. The government department is not in that. That has been transitioned out in the last year.
We are also helping various cities build centres. The City of Peel is a great example. Funding was given to the City of Peel to build a welcoming centre for people and transition them into permanent housing. We are encouraging the City of Toronto to do exactly that as well. Being in the—
Conservative