Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think we have many. I have no idea of how many we have. I don't think really that there are too many of them in New Brunswick or in Atlantic Canada. It's just that one of the things here is that you know everybody. You cannot just be submerged. One of the big benefits o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Despite my accent, a long time ago. I came, actually, to Ontario first. When we talk about retention, you always have to remember that people who are immigrants freely move around Canada. We came to Ontario, then we lived in Alberta for ten years, and I came to New Brunswick 22 y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The visible minority population in New Brunswick I think is 4% or 5%. It has been going up between the 2001 census and 2006 census by 26%, whereas in Canada it has been going up between 4% and 5%. This means again that Population Growth Secretariat is doing its job--people are co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to talk to that. I think the facts actually talk in favour of Atlantic Canada. There have been studies coming out that identify and document the success of newcomers coming to this country who are coming to smaller communities and their success in catching up to the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks very much, and thank you to the committee for coming again to Fredericton to listen to our input into immigration matters. I'm going to speak on temporary foreign workers only. I think it's unfortunate that we are not looking at the Iraqi refugee issues, because there are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the things that has come up in public discussions worldwide in the last couple of weeks is the fact that there are efforts under way to remove the Christians from Iraq, and the Iraqi Christian community was one of the first Christian communities that existed on earth. So t