Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  In my opinion, the nays have it. And more than five members having risen: Pursuant to Standing Order 98 the recorded division stands deferred until Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at the beginning of private members' business.

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like members and people watching to imagine for a second that there was a knock on their door and someone told them that they had to leave the country. That would be pretty shocking. One person would have made that decision. How could anything like that happe

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I think that, at some point, there was a snowball effect. They took a lot of time to decide how this process should work. They took a lot of time to implement various measures to change the way this process was working. There is no question that, during that period,

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  The hon. member for Chambly—Borduas has the floor for a brief question.

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would quickly like to congratulate my colleague from Lavalon her speech. In a matter having such a humanitarian dimension, and given that Canada often defends human rights in other countries or in other parts of the world, how is it that this appeal

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  The hon. member for Laval should know that the time allocated to her has expired, but I will allow her a moment to reply.

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I would simply like to thank my colleague for expressing his concerns and reassure him that we will do what it takes for this bill to be accepted by the House.

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. The refugee board is indeed experiencing a lot of problems. These problems have existed for a very long time. Earlier, we referred to political appointments. Now, we can also talk about people who are not appointed, and perh

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to express the absolute and unequivocal belief of this government in the integrity and the great value of all immigrants to Canada. I was dismayed at newspaper reports today that quoted a spokesperson for a potential leader of the Ontario

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of the people of Surrey Central to participate in the report stage debate on the motions in Group No. 2 to amend Bill C-11, an act respecting immigration to Canada and the granting of refugee protection to persons who are displaced, persecuted

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-31, an act respecting immigration to Canada and the granting of refugee protection to persons who are displaced, persecuted or in danger. In addressing the bill it is pertinent that we be aware of the immigration status of all of us

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise at report stage of Bill C-11. I will begin by complimenting all members of the committee who undertook some very hard work in a very short period of time. The last time Canada had a good look at the Immigration Act was in 1978

Question No. 72  Insofar as Citizenship and Immigration is concerned, the information requested is as follows: a) Physical security safeguards and measures as set out in the government security policy are applied based on the threat and risk assessment particular to each location within

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  moved that Bill C-31, an act respecting immigration to Canada and the granting of refugee protection to persons who are displaced, persecuted or in danger, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present Bill C-31, the immigration

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, last week I held a town hall meeting on problems faced by new immigrants to Canada. Representatives from over 30 cultural groups gathered for a discussion of delays in processing, the need for settlement services and difficulties in obtaining accreditation