Citizenship and Immigration committee Only certain parts of the act.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee As I understand it, there is no question that the better way of doing it, the cleaner.... The objective of officials, the question we were asked, is, what are the technical implications of Bill C-280? Just as we officials in 2000-01 were drafting the bill to make it comprehensive
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's right.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't think any of us can make that commitment.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee But if that's the standard to which we're being asked to ascribe, I don't know any human activity that can meet that standard. I understand the objective, believe me. In my job I've been to refugee camps and I see the consequences of decisions. But I honestly don't know, in a hum
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee Believe me, we'd like to hear it.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee I believe it's just the refugee appeal division, but I'd like to reserve and, if I'm wrong, inform the committee right away. I don't think there's anything significant that's not been proclaimed.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, if all the provisions are part of it.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee In terms of IRPA, yes.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. Eric may want to add something, as he is the lawyer.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, those provisions exist. If someone said...and maybe this is where you're going; it's always dangerous to speculate. If your question is, to implement RAD tomorrow, would we just snap our fingers and move, the answer is no, because frankly the transition provisions would have
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee The reality is that with the provisions there was a sequencing, and frankly, work on other parts of the legislation was more advanced. I can tell you I have not personally examined the state of those regs, because there's a lot of current regulatory business that's going on. My
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, I would be coming to talk to you about that work.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Malcolm Brown