Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I would say is that the minister is stating that it will be charter-compliant, and the legislation states that the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act shall be administered in conformity with the charter. But at the end of the day, it will be the courts that have to decid

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One could ask for leave--I agree with that, yes--to make that kind of application.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It can be challenged, yes. I mean, all legislation coming from this House, no matter what, can be challenged. It's the resources that are required in order to challenge it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You know, you're right--but I would have a higher expectation of the legislation that comes out of the House.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with you that, at the end of the day, it probably will be charter-compliant, once it has gone through the legal system. I am not saying that it will come out of the gate charter-compliant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, directly or indirectly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, those words are always there, but that doesn't mean that this legislation will in fact be charter-compliant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. Correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, temporary foreign workers are fast-tracked.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  She doesn't need the additional powers, these sweeping powers, in order to effect that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a political decision that's being played out on the backs of immigrants. It's clear. The government knows that the newly arriving immigrant community has traditionally been a constituency of the Liberal Party, and they're daring the Liberals to vote against it. That's what

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll take a stab at that. The Quebec-Canada accord is not the same as the other provincial nomination programs. In terms of how it deals with the other provinces, the federal government can pretty much impose whatever kind of restrictions or limits it wants within the provincial

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to add a couple of comments to what you had asked before to my colleague Mr. Creates, that it appears from the studies that are coming out now that immigrants who came to Canada more recently are not doing as well economically as immigrants who came to Canada some 30, 40