Education   in communities right across the country for many years. This is an issue about fundamental rights and liberties and about how we view our immigration and refugee policies. I think the motion has been put forward in that context. It is not about jurisdiction or accumulating more power

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, discussions have taken place among all parties concerning the 10th report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration presented to the House on Tuesday, June 7. I believe that you would find consent that the 10th report of the Standing Committee

Budget Implementation Act, 2007  , called Why Don’t Indians Drive Taxis? Why do they not just get on with it? Other immigrants come to this country and they drive taxis, and their children go to university, and within a generation they are middle class. He just does not get it. If that is the type of logic

Health committee   was created in 1994, and was originally known as the Health Care Coordination Initiative. The six permanent members are the Department of National Defence, Health Canada, Veterans Affairs Canada, the RCMP, Correctional Service Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The role

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to address Bill C-31 on immigration and the protection of refugees. Bill C-31 was introduced on April 6, 2000. It replaces the current act, which dates back to 1976 and which has been amended over 30 times. When the minister made her announcement

Justice   people are smuggled into the country each year and we are a major transit point for trafficking into the United States. Canada's Solicitor General estimates between 8,000 and 16,000 illegal immigrants are forced to work in the sex trade industry. The cruelty and inhumanity of human

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the U.S. have both published the draft regulations. We are awaiting comment back and we are looking forward to implementation before the end of the year. It is a very important piece of legislation that is going to improve

Canada Border Services Agency Act   umbrella the border security and intelligence functions previously carried out by three other government operations: the customs program from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency; the intelligence and interdiction and enforcement program of the immigration program at ports of entry

Canada Border Services Agency Act   and operating for over a year and a half, and this is a cleanup attempt. The bill amalgamates the border services of the Canada Customs and Reveneue Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and part of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The bill was reported to the House

Committees of the House   underemployed, in the sense that the quality of their job does not reflect their academic training and work experience. This is particularly true with immigrants, but it is also the case for members of visible or ethnocultural minorities who were born here, in Canada. All the studies also

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, these sorts of situations are obviously of great concern to us. When we bring people to this country, they come here with the expectation of full and equal employment. That is what we demand of the employers. This is why we work with our partners right across the cou

Status of Women committee   are different for immigrant women. They're different for different cultural groups. They're different for women of different ages. They're different for women in different kinds of caregiving situations. There are some huge knowledge gaps as well. When I do research, that's part of what I

Status of Women committee  I want to thank all of you for this opportunity, and I commend you for taking the time to listen to our experiences here today. What I want to stress is that on the economic security of immigrant women, you cannot just look at it from a financial or even an employment

Status of Women committee  Our community is made up of a majority of women. Some 65% to 70% are women because of that live-in caregiver program, for the last 20 years. In terms of services, we do not have any core funding and we also do not have the same services that other immigrant service societies

Status of Women committee  I'm not familiar with how the federal government prioritizes this problem, but I know in my organization abused women account for a large number of the immigrant women we see. Actually, in almost all of the cases they're coming because they have absolutely no idea how they're