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Citizenship and Immigration committee It's a difficult question to answer, because Australia has a universal visa system, and anybody who enters Australia without a visa will be detained. So there are a lot of people who come into the country who are detained for a short period of time when they first arrive.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, because lots of people arrive in Australia and have permission to enter the country. They have tourist visas. They have student visas. They have business visas. Just as in Canada, all sorts of people who eventually end up seeking asylum can arrive in a number of different way
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee Well, you can have an identity document and still be detained in Australia.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. You wouldn't have a visa unless your identity was proven. Australia doesn't issue visas without it.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee If we only talked about boat arrivals, we would be looking at 20% or 10%. It would vary, as some years it would be nobody. There's actually very little detail in the bill to suggest who will be designated. The capacity to designate foreign nationals is enormous. So the question i
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee The issue—
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee This bill is omnibus in character, so it has diverse motivations. But certainly a majority of the provisions are directed toward punishing people who come to Canada by irregular means. A small number of the provisions are directed toward increasing penalties for smuggling, but
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, that's right. To return to Ms. James's point about health care costs, there is absolutely crystal clear evidence that if you have a concern about health care costs, you really ought not to detain people. Detention, particularly long-term detention, creates all sorts physica
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee The concept of a list is an anathema to international refugee law, and if it must be done.... I'm not supportive of it being done in any fashion.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee Well, I would certainly be pleased to see the whole bill withdrawn. I can't deny that. I just don't think the mandatory detention provisions in Bill C-31 can be saved. I don't think they can be brought into compliance with the Constitution or with international law, and I think t
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm not an expert on European health care, but we know it's of a high standard—western world.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's not what the legislation says at present.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee That is what the current Immigration and Refugee Protection Act provides, so we have a legislative scheme already actively in place that creates exactly the scheme you've just suggested.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne
Citizenship and Immigration committee Australia created a system in 2001 in which individuals who arrived on boats were denied family reunification rights and were given only temporary protected status that could later be turned into protected status. It is worth noting that in Australia, somebody who gets protected
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Prof. Catherine Dauvergne