Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I'd like to first of all address statistics, and then I'll deal with why people withdraw. We see in the year 2011 that about 4,500 people initiated claims. About 800 were withdrawn, about 250 were abandoned, 160 were accepted, and 738 were refused.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The minister showed up on a right-wing TV show. It's described in Gina's brief. You can see the YouTube video yourself. As well, he stated in the National Post a little while ago that his delegates were handing out leaflets in a city in Hungary that said, don't come here. The m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The primary concern, I think, is the DCO list. In an ideal world, we would remove it completely. We know this is not likely, so in terms of what's actually possible, we would much prefer to go back to the criteria in Bill C-11, where there was a human rights expert panel that wou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee today. I am speaking as a representative of the Roma Community Centre, but I've been a lawyer in private practice since 1988. I'm also a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, where I sat as a member for five yea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're sharing our time, so it's a total of 10 minutes.