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Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. The short answer is, yes, if it's available. We've seen evidence that, particularly with people who originally travelled to western countries like Canada, in this instance, with the intent of at some point carrying out a terrorist attack, they don't care how they get there.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, it is very fair. In fact, the governments of those countries where they originally come from are aware of that. This has been a pattern since the end of the 1980s, after the Soviet war in Afghanistan when the mujahideen felt they'd defeated the Soviet Union—now what do they
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee There are several things I'd like to highlight. One is that a number of principles need to be embodied in whatever effective asylum laws are put in place. Chief amongst those principles is the balance between security, accountability, openness, and fairness. Certainly, the storie
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's close. It's coming close to nine o'clock.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee You wouldn't know it, but the weather is not quite so nice here.
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. Mr. Chair, honourable members, I am privileged to speak to you today. Thank you for having me back and thank you for the opportunity to provide some comments on the bill at hand, Bill C-31. I have studied extensively the phenomenon of homegrown terrorism in the West
May 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee You mean pre-screening in the sense of applying for visas at a consulate abroad?
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think it probably has to be a systematic process. To be frank, there are going to be exceptions. There are going to be people who aren't allowed entry, say, on their first look. There's an important role for an appeals process because of that. There unfortunately has to be a ba
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. Racial profiling is obviously a touchy subject in a variety of areas and for a variety of reasons, and to some extent it's problematic. A policy that embraces racial profiling too closely, or hews too closely to a strict racial profiling line, runs the risk of blindin
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Again, I'm not an immigration law expert or a border control technical expert, but in terms of principles, I think it should inform effective and secure immigration policy. The third one is enacting immigration and border control policies that form a mutually supportive relatio
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Well, they are considerable difficulties. The point I would make, as I mentioned, is it wasn't until after the 2003 plot in which a number of individuals.... The convicted ring leader was an Algerian who was found to be living in the country illegally. He had an asylum applicatio
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, I can. Fundamentally, what it comes down to is providing an accessible means of legally crossing the border. As long as that can be done, the appeal of crossing the border illegally will be dramatically diminished. Doing so by incorporating, let's say, metric scans or other
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee I mentioned three broad principles that I think should inform any truly effective and secure immigration policy. One of them is that the law should facilitate maximum awareness of not only who is entering the country, but, and this is critical, of who is travelling between Canada
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's an excellent question. There certainly are examples of individuals moving from various countries in the world to Latin America. There has been considerable attention paid to the threat of terrorist groups exploiting the U.S.'s relatively porous southern border. But I think
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble
Citizenship and Immigration committee The short answer is yes. You're exactly right that there has to be a balance between security and transparency and all the fundamental principles free societies are based on. The difficulty arises in that.... I mentioned in the U.K., for instance, there's an over-representation
March 6th, 2012Committee meeting
John Amble