Foreign Affairs committee  Let me come in with an anecdote. You're going to go in with a different world view, perhaps. I was in Sierra Leone a number of years ago, and an example of a microcredit arrangement that failed was a farmer who took out money to buy pigs; because there was a significant Muslim

Foreign Affairs committee  Right. Two weeks ago I sat in Kigali, Rwanda, with a group of our clients. There were Muslims and people from the whole community.They're part of our community we work with and serve, and that is part of our mandate: to be very inclusive. We live from a very values-based

Written Questions  Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to inform the member we have consulted Christians, Muslims, Hindus, people of the Jewish faith, Buddhists. We discussed with people around the world to get their counsel and advice, from the Aga Khan to the Vatican. We talked to a good number

Foreign Affairs committee   there. We'll help them to be aware of the issue and to work with local officials, if in fact the problem develops. But there are publications available on the travel.gc.ca website to assist parents in these heartbreaking situations. Parents should also be aware that in Muslim countries

National Defence committee   was meant. At the same time we are talking to some Muslim states through diplomatic channels to reiterate sincere regret that something like this would happen, but also to make it clear that this was not a message from ISAF. It was not a message from ISAF allies or partners in any way

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, Canadians are concerned of media reports that the Ulema Council of 150 leading Muslim clerics in Afghanistan have written a code of conduct that may restrict the rights of women in that country. Would the Minister for Status of Women please inform this House on our

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I can't tell you, but I get this from Muslim friends of mine who are in a position to know. I can name them, and I'm quite sure they could tell you the names of the mosques, and be willing to. Salim Mansur, who is a professor at Western University, is one who is—

Citizenship and Immigration committee   going to have concerns, and I would assume that they are shared fairly broadly, about Mr. Bissett's comments, repeatedly, specifically about Muslim terrorism. I think the issue for national security has to do with terrorism and national security and what's required to keep Canada

Citizenship and Immigration committee   procedures to deal with terrorism, and in particular, with Muslim terrorism. From your perspective as a lawyer, I'm wondering what thoughts you might have to share with us about Mr. Bissett's testimony today.

Public Safety committee   with others who are alleged to be involved with Muslim or Islamic extremists. The key concern is communication. The GPS doesn't address that need. I mean, how do they know who he's communicating with? What they have is a phone intercept and a mail intercept. That's much more effective

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate your comments to the committee with regard to Muslim immigration, and your concern with regard to that. There really is a battle in the Islamic religion between the extremists and the moderates. It's a battle to discern who's a moderate

Citizenship and Immigration committee  , physical, and emotional abuse throughout his youth, at the hands of soldiers from the local Sudanese army detachment who were Arab Muslims from the north. In 1984, when he was about 21 years old, John became intrigued by a fledgling movement called the Sudan People's Liberation

Citizenship and Immigration committee   of ties to Pakistan in virtually every way with respect to their homegrown terrorism threats. That's unique. That's not the case in many other countries. I mentioned that the largest Muslim population in Germany is of Turkish origin. Yet a study done by the Hamburg state security

University of Regina   a student organization, while proclaiming its support for political freedom and democratic discussion, did just the opposite. Calling Israel an apartheid state is abhorrent and insulting to all Israeli citizens, Jewish, Christian and Muslim. The University of Regina's administration

Israeli Apartheid Week   that Israel is an apartheid state is patently false. All Israeli citizens, be they Arab, Jewish or Christian, share the same rights and freedoms. Arab and Islamic people are freer in Israel than in any other state in the Middle East; there is equality for Muslim women; and voting