Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mrs. Kusie. Before we go any further, I just want to let everyone know why I am running the meeting right now. The chair had to go to the House to try once again to table the committee's report on immigration. As first vice-chair, I am temporarily filling in for him

Official Languages committee   and overall international experience of our students in Manitoba. They also play an important role because they support the community's immigration efforts. We know that many of our foreign graduates stay in the community after they finish school—nearly 80%.

Official Languages committee  I'm sorry to interrupt. What economic impact do francophone immigration and foreign students have on your university?

Official Languages committee   francophone immigration project. The États généraux sur le postsecondaire en contexte francophone minoritaire confirmed the particular additional mission that a minority institution like USB must take on, namely to maintain the language and preserve the culture, in addition to ensuring

Official Languages committee  That's exactly it. We also need to know how this will evolve. We're welcoming more and more French-speaking immigrants, more and more rights holders. We were surprised by the data. We really need to do research to find out what kind of infrastructure we need not only

Official Languages committee  Our organization has members in nine provinces and the three territories. So they come from all over the country. We represent people from francophone and immersion schools. Others come from immigrant backgrounds. We have a bit of a pulse on people from very diverse backgrounds

Public Safety committee  I know that port authority officers have limited access. They can only open a container if there is a life in danger or an environmental risk. Do you think that access could be expanded? Representatives of the Customs and Immigration Union told us that there are only eight

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I wish to thank both witnesses for being with us today. Thank you for making time for us. Professor Mandé, you mentioned equal relationships and exchanges that would be beneficial to both parties. You also mentioned African immigration to Canada

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I also happen to be a “migratologist”. Immigration and development, as we understand them today, should be wins both for the immigrant and the state that they are migrating from, because it has invested in the immigrant's education, and for the state

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