The Budget  ; it is also fundamental for the individual litigants before the courts. There is a criminal legal aid package in this budget that includes $440 million over five years. There is also immigration and refugee legal aid. Unfortunately, since the provinces have wholesale resiled from

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   in the lurch. Is the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship planning to fix this situation right away?

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, I would ask the member to come see me later to discuss the situation in person. Obviously, people who have to apply for a visa need to do so from Mexico. That is the rule. If exceptions need to be made, he can come and see me and we can discuss them together.

The Budget  Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the great member for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles. Whether one is an immigrant to this country like myself, or has lived here throughout one's life, it is really hard not to feel like Canada is not the same Canada anymore

The Budget  Madam Speaker, this is the same housing minister who lost track of one million immigrants when he was the immigration minister. This is the same housing minister who unleashed absolute out-of-control chaos in our immigration system, not according to me but according to his

The Budget   in the last seven years. Literally hundreds of thousands of homes are waiting to be built, but are locked up in slow permitting processes. What do we have as a solution? The Prime Minister has taken the worst immigration minister in our country's history, the guy the Prime Minister

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Official Languages entitled “Openness to the International Francophone Community: Optimizing Francophone Immigration to Canada”, which suggests ways to increase

The Budget   it. It is the Prime Minister, who attacks his immigration minister for letting the system get completely out of control and then attacks himself for doubling housing costs, making life so unfair. If they are so busy attacking themselves and their own record, why do they not just call a carbon tax

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has got to stop getting his facts from his incompetent housing minister's Twitter account. This is the same guy who, as immigration minister, lost track of a million people. When I was housing minister, we built 92,782 new apartment units

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister blamed immigration for housing costs and the immigration minister who caused it all. Then he made that minister responsible for housing. Since that time, the minister has had a $4-billion housing accelerator program that he admits will not build

Housing  Mr. Speaker, they are lecturing us. It is unbelievable. This is the same government that has exacerbated the current housing crisis. It lost control of immigration and has not given Quebec money for housing. This is the same government that gave us ArriveCAN, that is incapable

Birthday Congratulations   of immigrants, having arrived in Canada in 1965 to open the first Ursuline convent in North America. It is the way of the Ursulines, to live in service and in kindness. I want to take this opportunity to wish Sister Malgorzata a Happy 104th birthday and to say thanks for helping my dad

Sikh Heritage Month  , many of us celebrated Vaisakhi, which marks the creation of the Khalsa and the Sikh articles of faith. Canada is the home to over 770,000 Sikh Canadians, making it one of the largest Sikh diasporas in the world. Since the arrival of Sikh immigrants in the late 19th century, Sikh

Committees of the House   enters a room where all the conscripts are and people are basically assigned in thirds to whatever service they are going to. I wonder if the member would support an amendment to section 34 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that would exclude those who had to serve

Committees of the House   the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. As a result, senior officials of the regime are now permanently inadmissible to Canada. This includes tens of thousands of Iranians, such as the head of state, senior IRGC members, intelligence operatives, senior government officials, diplomats