Immigration Enforcement Improvement Act  Our policy for non-citizen criminals would not result from bargaining with special interests or with refugee lawyers but from consulting with our members, our constituents and with the people of Canada. I am sure my hon. colleague, the sponsor of the bill, understands what the people are saying on immigration matters.

Immigration  What I would suggest to the hon. member, however, is that to utilize a visitor visa program for any one country is not the solution and it would jeopardize our visitor visa program internationally. There is a way to deal with refugee crises. There is a way to deal with how to utilize a country's forces to address a destabilized area. That solution, however, does not lie in a visitor visa program.

B'Nai Brith Canada  A grassroots membership organization, it has served the Jewish community and Canada with distinction on issues such as immigration and refugee policy, law enforcement, international human rights, the treatment of Jewish communities overseas, intergroup relations in Canada, as well as a host of charitable activities and voluntary action.

Immigration  How can the minister persist in denying the adverse effect of such a tax, given that, in two thirds of the cases, his department rejects loan applications from immigrants and refugees, on the grounds that they are insolvent?

Hate Propaganda Via Electronic Highway  Canada has long had a reputation as a tolerant and compassionate nation, accepting with open arms immigrants and refugees from all over the world. Many of these people have fled their homelands to escape persecution. Many were being persecuted on the basis of their race alone. They have come to this great country believing that at long last they will be free to live their lives in peace.

Questions On The Order Paper  What were the acceptance versus rejection rates of each of the Immigration and Refugee Board regional hearing offices in December 1994 and January 1995 versus the same period a year earlier?

Immigration  Speaker, the minister of immigration has announced a number of reforms to the immigration system. We have announced a number of changes to the Immigration and Refugee Board. It is a shame that the hon. member cannot see his way clear from time to time to support these changes and reforms, as well as to support such bills as Bill C-41.

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, for a long time we have heard the opinions of the Reform Party with regard to refugees and immigrants to Canada. This government believes in health care for all Canadians. We believe in health care for people who come to this country. We do not cut people off and leave them to be sick in the streets.

Immigration  If a Canadian of Italian extraction commits a crime does the whole community have to pay? Mr. Speaker, how do you know who is a refugee and who is not?

Question Of Privilege  Speaker, let me respond to the member and his colleagues. When I referred to the individual having come to Canada and been given refugee status, in the same way my family came to this country in 1958-

Question Of Privilege  I feel that the minister attacked me in his answer by improperly mentioning my status as a political refugee. True, I came here 21 years ago and settled in Quebec but today I have the same rights as any other citizen or any other member of the House of Commons, and I find it unacceptable that the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration-

Immigration  The member just said unless you change there will be pressure mounted to make the system change. I ask the member, who came to this country as a political refugee claimant, whether he wants a system amenable simply by pressure and tactics of a community, wherever they are, or does he believe there ought to be a system in place that allows for applications to be made and if there is a negative determination for the applicant to make another application?

Vietnamese Community  A Vietnamese proverb teaches that if a parent is cruel, the children will choose another. When the war ended it did not bring peace to the people of Vietnam. Refugees fled a cruel parent in rickety boats, risking their lives to escape. Many of them made it to Canada. In fact, Canada has resettled more than 145,000 Indo-Chinese asylum seekers since 1979.

Immigration  It found, among other things, that the skill and language levels and ability to integrate of today's immigrants has declined as a result of the short-sighted family reunification and refugee policies of the government. In light of this study, will the minister of immigration immediately reconsider his 1995-96 do nothing immigration plan, a plan that makes no significant changes to the policies of the last decade?

Holocaust Memorial Day  Last year, more than one million Rwandans perished in a carefully planned genocide and, to this day, those responsible for this crime go unpunished. More recently, the slaughter of thousands of Hutu refugees by the Rwandan Army at the Kibeho camp amounted to carnage. The international community witnessed acts of unspeakable cruelty in Bosnia, where ethnic cleansing was systematically carried out.