Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't. The waiting period in question would result in very, very serious hardship to those people who are found to need our protection. Waiting five years before even being able to initiate a process of family sponsorship means that children who've been left behind, a spous

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. The very reason countries around the world have refugee status determination procedures is that they recognize that globally we don't have a program of refugee resettlement that's adequate to the demands of the numbers. We have way more refugees worldwide than we have reset

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'm an expert in international human rights law and immigration law. For that reason I'm going to focus my remarks on the aspects of Bill S-7 that relate to my expertise. I'm going to depend upon my colleagues from METRAC to underscore many of the points that I suppor

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Indeed, as you have heard from numerous organizations that have appeared before you already, there are various objections to the short title. It's not to take issue with what Ms. Papp said, that practices that are harmful to women we may understand to be ba

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it is a legal one in the sense that it's a bill with legal measures, but if you're asking me what the impetus for this bill is, it seems most patently obvious in this case that it's about the optics, that it's about politics in its most cynical form. If the government reall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, I wouldn't be advocating that this bill simply be amended to address the age of 18; rather, I'm pointing to the international norm, pointing out the inconsistency between what we're advocating internationally and domestically, and saying that if we're going to do anythin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, by eliminating the role for parental consent. Arguably, there are very little practical ways to police whether parental consent is happening in such a way that the individuals affected have agency, right? There's no way to assess the degree of pressure exerted, etc.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure there is, if the government wanted to. My position is that I'm not arguing for amendments. As unrealistic as it may be, I'm advocating that this bill be scrapped. I don't want this bill to see the light of day. There's nothing positive to be gained by it and the very serio