International Trade committee   compatible immigration security measures between the three countries and of integrated police enforcement teams at our borders. Canada, like Mexico, would have to adapt to security threats facing another country by abandoning some of its sovereignty, but without having either the means

Foreign Affairs committee   are crucial to the financial markets and also to the political sphere given that we are partners in NATO. The European Union's emergence in the areas of justice, domestic affairs, immigration, and combatting organized crime is also important. Canada is our international and political point

Justice committee   may be involved in this, not to the mention the Asian immigrants. It seems to me that there's been a tremendous amount of pressure on the courts in my area from time to time to provide a trial of some sort in some language other than French or English. Do you care to comment on that?

Justice committee  . This is not a transitional language in Canada; this is an official language. It's a growing language, and increasingly across the country it's becoming a language of welcome to immigrants and refugees. It's an official language to which various language rights have been enshrined in the Charter.

Citizenship and Immigration committee   ago for the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, RCMP, possibly CSIS, and maybe one or two other departments for implementation of comprehensive citizenship legislation. So this is money that had been allocated by a previous government many years ago but had never been used

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, do you have a legal department at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration? A legal department is a group of lawyers with the mandate to advise public servants and the department, who in turn advise the minister. Is there one?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Normally, the three departments would be our department--to check with Immigration, to ensure that they're landed or permanent residents. In this case, we know that they're not permanent—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be Immigration, normally, RCMP and CSIS—exactly.

Public Accounts committee   of our future is predicated on our ability to identify and bring immigrants to Canada to play a role in our society, this is a key piece. This has to work. If this doesn't work, nothing else can. Not only that, but a lot of our foreign policy is developed by virtue of the information

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Typically, we do fewer than ten a year. Last year we did ten, and six of those were people who fall into the category of people we're talking about today. They had been erroneously admitted at some point in time with landed immigrant documents stating that this was Canadian

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Once the file gets to the case management branch in our unit that handles citizenship cases, staff have been instructed to treat these as a top priority, which we are currently doing. A case summary is prepared and it is reviewed by the analyst, the director of legisl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Citizenship and Immigration also told us that an order in council could be used to resolve certain cases. Has this order been issued?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. When you meet with lost Canadians at Immigration, what problems are they experiencing? In other words, what steps does an individual born in the United States need to take in order to be recognized here? What step is taking so long? If an individual has

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, at the case processing centre in Sydney, in the program support unit, which is the unit that deals with these types of applications, we have a series of family trees. If you want to refer to them as a genealogical tool, we have an in-house system that we use on a regul

Citizenship and Immigration committee   with a targeted advertising campaign in an additional effort to try to reach people who may be affected. For those cases that we receive, you have my assurance that Citizenship and Immigration Canada is working to resolve as many cases as possible, as quickly as possible, using