Points Of Order   decisions, important announcements or important debates should happen here on the floor of the House of Commons. The tradition has been that ministers of immigration in the past tabled the report, as I did, for 30 seconds and then left for a press conference outside the House of Commons

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to speak on behalf of our government and accord our other political friends on the other side to respond with respect to the levels document I just tabled for Parliament. Immigration policy represents one of the most important and complex

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, I would like to table on behalf of government, in both official languages, the 1994 immigration levels.

Employment And Immigration  Mr. Speaker, I am tabling, in both official languages, copies of Unemployment Insurance Developmental Uses: 1994 Expenditure Plan and copies of the annual report of the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission Department for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1993.

Pre-Budget Consultations   and human rights protection could be transferred to more appropriate departments such as employment and immigration and justice respectively. In this way almost the entire cost of a government department can be saved at the same time as continuing to deliver defensible services

Pre-Budget Consultations   Anglo-Saxon character, it is home to such fascinating peoples as the many descendants of the historic Irish pioneers. After World War II many Dutch, Italian and Portuguese immigrants came to our area and worked very hard for a better life. Most recently, significant numbers of Arabs

Pre-Budget Consultations   as a basis for increasing the rate of clawback on these social benefits. On immigration, the federal government must enforce its immigration sponsorship agreements where the sponsor is able to meet their obligation. In 1993 the region of Peel alone had some 11,000 welfare claims from

Pre-Budget Consultations   and Employment and Immigration. The purpose of this strategy was to address disparities between aboriginal peoples and other Canadians, and its objective was to help aboriginal peoples achieve economic self-reliance. Between 1989 and 1993, $900 million was spent under the strategy

Pre-Budget Consultations  Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to be here and to congratulate you on your appointment. I am delighted to be taking part in this debate today with my first speech, while not my maiden speech, in this Parliament. May I also say that the view is different from this side of the House. I

Social Security System   to Canadians demanding change is a reflection of the plague of political correctness that has infiltrated every segment of our society. If one speaks out against special status for one province, one is said to be out to destroy Canada. If one dares to question our immigration policy, one

Social Security System   of women of all races and ages, but I must admit that our immigrant, native and handicapped women are in an even more difficult situation as they also face discrimination and poverty. In a country as rich and as fortunate as Canada, we cannot accept this disintegration of our social

Social Security System   to which he referred, the minister surely remembers that of the former deputy minister of Employment and Immigration, Mr. Arthur Kroeger, who strongly criticized Canadian governments. His comments were reported in the Globe and Mail , last week. This is not a quote; it is an excerpt

Social Security System   a climate whereby our children can at least meet or exceed the same level of life we have had. Earlier there was a reference to our expectations and needs with respect to immigration. All those men and women who decided to come to Canada made that decision because they felt

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, while 59,000 of the 250,000 immigrants entering Canada settled in Ontario, Ontario received only 39 per cent of the federal immigration funding for settlement and language training. Provincial cuts to school boards is forcing them to cut programs including second

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question. We have made promises to work together with local and provincial governments and I am pleased to say this again is another promise we are keeping. The minister responsible for immigration met this morning with the Ontario