You're welcome.
Evidence of meeting #26 for Status of Women in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was policy.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #26 for Status of Women in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was policy.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Director General, Corporate Affairs, Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada
You're welcome.
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NDP
Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
I'm thinking of situations in my riding where we run into cultural differences, particularly with Muslim couples. They marry once, or they have a kind of agreement. They don't regard it as a full-fledged marriage until after there's been a wedding in front of the community. But sometimes, as in the case with the war in Lebanon, it becomes necessary to bring brides, and sometimes grooms, to Canada without that officially sanctioned marriage before the family, although they still regard themselves as being married.
Has CIC taken a look at these cultural differences between how we regard legitimate applications and how other cultures regard them?
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Senior Analyst, Gender-Based Analysis, Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Definitely. It's part of our mandate to take into account all these differences. This is one of the reasons we're going beyond gender differences and taking into account racial factors, cultures, religion, age, etc.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
Thank you.
In your submission we saw that you do a diversity analysis. Perhaps when you're doing your GBA and diversity analysis you could give us a little framework on what you do so the committee has a grip on it. It's all technical for the time being until we see something concrete. Whatever concrete examples you can provide, the clerk will send you an e-mail to that effect.
On behalf of the committee, I'd like to thank you and wish you success in your GBA. Hopefully, with the pressure of our committee, we can somehow get gender budgeting done.
Thank you so much.
The committee meeting is adjourned.