Supply  Mr. Speaker, today I rise to give my most important speech to date of this 35th Parliament. It reflects my personal point of view, not as a representative of any race or of any province, but as a proud immigrant Canadian citizen. It is not directed to the politicians

Supply   was no match for the promise of the future, where people believed they should speak different languages, worship in different ways and live in peace. They did not die as anglophones or francophones, as easterners or westerners, as Christians or Jews, as immigrants or natives. They died

Pearson International Airport  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for his question. As he may know, the hon. Minister of Transport is away from the House of Commons on government business. I would be more than happy to relay his question directly and try to get a generous and accurate respons

Supply  Madam Speaker, I am absolutely delighted to be able to stand here today and set the record straight on some rather outlandish statements by Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and Official Opposition. To claim that regional economic development efforts are creating overlap and incons

Supply  Madam Speaker, I wonder if the hon. member, with his great knowledge of Canadian history, is aware of a certain phenomenon that took place in post-war Canada, in Atlantic Canada and eastern Canada in general but most particularly in Atlantic Canada. Atlantic Canadians paid $5 ov

Business Of The House   of the main estimates and the supplementary estimates being voted on starting at ten o'clock in the evening. Subject to further discussions and to the progress in debate made earlier I would hope to call the bill reorganizing the Department of Citizenship and Immigration on Thursday. I

Supply   agrees that this area is a mess. On one side we have the pretensions and the budgets of Employment and Immigration, and on the other the Société québécoise de la main-d'oeuvre, which has become an almost empty shell because of the federal-provincial conflict in the area of vocational

Supply  . There is one Canada from coast to coast, one nation made up of founding peoples and immigrants, a nation of which we are all extremely proud.

Supply  . They come and undermine Quebec initiatives. I have a few more questions. I have devastating figures about my riding which I would like to quote for the benefit of the minister of employment and immigration, even if he does not like to hear them. In my riding of Gaspé, the unemployment

Supply   and a third for the West. Due to these regional agencies, federal government interventions have been rather haphazard. Cases in point are the Federal Office of Regional Development, the Federal Business Development Bank, the interventions of Employment and Immigration through

Bill C-35 An Act to establish the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Committees Of The House  Madam Speaker, I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), concerning a review of the Citizenship Act, the House authorize the required personnel of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to travel from place to place for the purpose of preparing and holding

Refugees  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. Recently, we learned that the Montreal refugee assistance committee had lodged an international complaint against Canada concerning the improper deportation to Zaire of a young pregnant woman who

Refugees   on possibly illegal behaviour on the part of immigration officers?

Refugees  Mr. Speaker, no, I am not going to have an inquiry for something that this member throws very loosely across the floor. If he has information that anyone has perpetrated illegal acts then he has the duty and the obligation as a member of Parliament to provide me with that informa