Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, the immigration minister told Liberal colleagues that there would be no ministerial permits issued during the election campaign. She then issued one for a stripper who worked on her campaign. While thousands of immigrants were put on hold during the election, why

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister told the House that he supported his minister. I ask hon. members, with immigration staff who do business in strip clubs, an immigration minister who misleads Canadians and with the minister now being reduced to public ridicule

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, it is an immigration exodus on the government side of the House. Yesterday, a new deputy minister was appointed at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The government did not wait for the ethics report. This morning the minister's chief of staff took

Citizenship and Immigration  There seems to be a double standard in place at the immigration department, Mr. Speaker. Why are the minister's campaign helpers not subject to the same process as other immigrant hopefuls? Why does this minister not accept responsibility for this mess and resign?

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, let me say it very clearly to all of you folks. You continue to do nothing, and I will address you, Mr. Speaker, nothing other than to politicize immigration. It is the same old reform-alliance party that has always been there. Let me remind them about what

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, while the minister of immigration fast-tracks work permits for exotic dancers, she ignores legitimate compassionate cases. A Korean student, the victim of a vicious assault while jogging, is living with the possibility of her caregivers being sent back to South

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, what is the compelling hold that the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration has over the Prime Minister? What makes him willing to fully expose his government in a clumsy effort at damage control? First, it was the immigration minister and her parliamentary

Immigrants  , a prominent member of the Conservative Party of Nova Scotia and Canada, who said the following words, “Immigrants will dilute our population”. As an immigrant myself, as well as 39 members of Parliament who come from other countries, I am ashamed and disgusted with the Conservative Party

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, let us be very clear on these issues. We continually review our policies. We are looking at a variety of them, as we move forward in the 21st century, to bring in an immigration framework in cooperation with the provinces. The issue to which the member refers I

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, let me be very clear on this. Citizenship and Immigration Canada does not have a program to facilitate the entrance of exotic dancers. HRSDC, under its temporary foreign worker program, has a variety of categories for agricultural workers, entertainers, buskers

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, the Immigration and Refugee Board is a quasi-judicial board, independent of anyone else. It reviews these cases on a case by case basis. It makes its decisions, and it will stand by them.

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, ever since it was revealed that the immigration minister fast tracked one of her campaign workers to the head of the line, the fairness and integrity of Canada's immigration system has been called into question. Helping the minister get re-elected gave this lucky

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, I am very proud of the work I do as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and I intend to continue doing that. We have referred the report to the Ethics Commissioner. We will await a response.

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, the immigration minister grants work permits to campaign workers while legitimate applicants for funerals, marriages, or even life-saving transplants are declined. Doctors drive cabs, engineers wash windows and nurses sit home while strippers get fast tracked

Citizenship Act   and Immigration in previous Parliaments and in the current Parliament. I want to acknowledge the hard work of Mr. Don Chapman and Mr. Charles Bosdet on this important issue. They have organized many lost Canadians and publicized their situation very effectively. They appeared before