Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, without question, and it's long overdue. And this isn't a question of mental illness either. This is just a question of hate-mongers who are promoting jihad and promoting killing—I don't need to get into it. Anybody wanting to promote hatred in Canada, be it against h

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is a bar to citizenship. Having a criminal record is currently a bar to acquiring citizenship. I don't want to correct you, but I have to correct you. That was 265 permanent residents, people who became permanent residents. There were another 100,000 foreign international

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I mentioned that Charles Ng was $5 million.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. I really do. I would like to add that there are some critics who say we are criminalizing immigrants. Well, nobody criminalizes somebody who commits a crime; they criminalize themselves. When somebody commits a crime, it isn't Immigration that criminalizes them. It'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mugesera.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, all the way up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Even though the Supreme Court has.... It's something to do with...they can't get a guarantee that he won't face the death sentence or he won't be killed when he returns to Rwanda.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's an oxymoron, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe we will. But I would also like to know what will happen to the others who have managed to stay here for years. Will this be retroactive? Will they now be deported from Canada? Will the Mugeseras leave? Will the Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammads be required to leave as w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a longer list.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh yes, I've got him on my list.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think there should be absolutely no appeals available for any non-Canadian who has been convicted of a serious crime. It is, first of all, an abomination to the victims of the crime, and it is an incredible waste of taxpayers' money. We still haven't gotten rid of this war cr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I have.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would just like to expand on my role here. I'm here as an immigration and refugee lawyer, but also in my capacity as an immigration lawyer. I have represented those who have been found to be criminally inadmissible to Canada, and I have gone to the Immigration Appea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I don't know. I know that if they want to go and live and work in another EU country, that's exactly what they have to do—live and work. They are not entitled to welfare when they arrive in one of the 26 other countries, whereas when they arrive in Canada they are not obl