House debate   dealt with the rights of linguistic minorities, equality of women, or the rights of minorities such as homosexuals, aboriginals or immigrants. The court challenges programs cost the Canadian government 18 cents per person per year. It cost only 18 cents a year for each Canadian

House debate   it backward to a time we shudder to think of, because it was a time when women were undermined, when immigrants were undermined, and when minority groups and first nations were undermined. We cannot possibly return to those times. We need to go forward.

House debate   go unchecked. However, the government has no interest in these ideals nor in the needs of women, needs such as child care, economic security, affordable housing, fair immigration policy, the rights of aboriginal women and pensioners. There was nothing in the recent budget

House debate   for the Jews and a racial discrimination policy for immigration. The point is that the Constitution of Canada is very clear. It says that the Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada and any law that is inconsistent with the provision of the Constitution is, to the extent

An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments   of government and the provincial level of government. In particular, we believe that the federal government should attend to federal responsibilities like trade, defence, immigration, the economic levers of the economy, et cetera. The provincial government should look after the delivery

Status of Women committee  . There were three different areas: visible minorities; aboriginal; immigrant and senior women. In fact, there were four distinct areas that take a priority in those areas. It's a larger pool of funds, so I think it's worth checking out. Back to Melanie, if I may. In your presentation, you

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

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

International Trade committee  . We haven't talked at all about the whole security dimension—the implications for civil liberties, the implications for harmonization of immigration policies and visa policies, and what that means, and how it plays out in this initiative. As business leaders often repeat, these two

Citizenship and Immigration committee   with the accused and adequately tested. The second was the problem of obtaining access to the original evidence used to formulate the assessment. I have two questions for you. First, do you believe your United Kingdom system of a special advocate and special immigration appeal commission

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And as a special advocate with the special immigration appeal court, how many appellants did you defend? And could you please speak to the drawbacks of the special advocate procedure?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Thank you. Mr. Ed Komarnicki is with the Conservative Party, and he is parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. Mr. Komarnicki.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. There's no training for people who are appointed as special advocates. You learn on the job. Most of us were all very experienced lawyers, either in the immigration field or in trial work, which I've always done. But there was no kind of training whatsoever. The only

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I can, indeed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  , we can still hear evidence and we're very pleased to be hearing from you this morning, Mr. MacDonald. Just by way of a brief introduction, Mr. MacDonald is a U.K. lawyer specializing in immigration and criminal law. He is a senior barrister with Garden Court Chambers, which