Mr. Speaker, the Canadian embassy in Paris refused to deliver a visitor's visa to Hafsa Zinaï Koudil, an Algerian film producer who was scheduled to present her film, "Le démon au féminin", this week at the Festival Vues d'Afrique, in Montreal.
How can the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration justify rejecting the application of this Algerian filmmaker who already received a death sentence from fundamentalist groups because of her film, which precisely denounces the rise of religious fundamentalism in Algeria?