Citizenship and Immigration committee  My name is Claudette Cardinal. To begin, allow me to thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk to you about our concerns over the Pre-Removal Risk Assessment Process, otherwise referred to as the PRRA. My colleague, Richard Goldman, will be assisting me in this presentation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know what's going on specifically in Kingston, but I see what I see in the paper or hear on television. Certainly we're concerned about the three persons, just on a human level, with what they're going through right now. As a former nurse in one of my professional lives,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly Pakistan. In terms of the cases that I receive for our help, there are certainly a lot of people from Africa, and often single men. That doesn't mean that men accompanied by spouses and children are not refused, but certainly those alone.... And maybe it's just the ca

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Pakistan, the gentleman whose case we referred to.... Certainly there have been a number. There is also--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This man in particular, yes, and I can give you the example of a Pakistani woman also who was---

Citizenship and Immigration committee  She was Muslim. This gentleman was Shia. The woman, I believe, was Shia also. She was in a village and she managed to organize the women in her village. She found sewing machines. She got these women sewing, and they were able to sell the clothing they were making. It was givin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, PPP. So she is in great danger, and yet Canada saw fit to deport her. Her family has been almost decimated for political reasons, and yet we didn't seem to see any problem there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not the francophone section, but I cannot speak for the anglophone section. They may have. We function completely differently and completely separately, so I don't know.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the Mauritanian gentleman I referred to here, the Federal Court eventually...he was one of the 11% of whom they said, yes, perhaps we should do a judicial review of his case, but he's already gone.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not to my knowledge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The PRRA officer said this man was not at risk. He was an ex-slave, and slavery has been taken off the books in Mauritania, so he should not be in trouble. He was detained three times and tortured three times because he was defending the human rights of ex-slaves and telling them

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if had an H and C.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And they come back here?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have not personally witnessed that, no.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With the PRRA, people whose refugee claim is rejected are told that, before being sent back to their home country, they can undergo an assessment to determine the risks they would face if they were sent back. Across Canada, 3% of these cases are successful. So these people are co