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Citizenship and Immigration committee I think the double-testing issue is the fact that you do a language test to be able to become a citizen, and you need to meet the CLB 4 benchmark. Testing knowledge and testing language are two separate criteria that have been set out by Parliament, and we can debate their scope
April 21st, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't disagree with the proposition that there is revocation based on misrepresentation. It's built into the treaty on statelessness as well. My suggestion—and perhaps the example of permanent residence is a good one—is that historically we have removed the status from many mo
April 21st, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to the members of the committee for inviting me to appear before you today. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with your Senate colleagues about Bill C-24. At that time, I expressed serious reservations about the bill, which was subsequen
April 21st, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee Sorry—can I comment?
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think that the act is currently worded in a very broad way. I have not seen any cases where it was impossible to remove a convicted war criminal. It's a matter of knowing whether the legislation is too broad. We are talking about the application of the legislation here. We are
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee I work in both the criminal justice system and the immigration system. To take an example in the criminal justice system, there have been attempts—and I believe the Mayor of Toronto recently made comments to this effect as to whether—
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee In which case.... I don't have a yes or no answer for you, if that's what you're—
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee Biometrics is a tool that we've used for a long time. A passport photo is a biometric tool. So in the sense of saying that we use biometrics—fingerprints are used commonly in the immigration system as it is now—we do use biometrics. I think the question you're asking is whether
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee That is a good question, which is fairly complex and very difficult to answer. It raises many questions. Different people will be affected in different ways. The committee must decide which of the affected people will be taken into consideration and who the stakeholders are, with
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm sorry. Whether the electronic...?
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think ultimately the tools.... In terms of the implementation of the tools, I think there's a number of tools that can be quite useful in terms of implementing border security and whether we implement that security at different points. My suggestion at the beginning, and I wo
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee [Inaudible—Editor]...going to be unsafe. Sorry?
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's fine.
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann
Citizenship and Immigration committee In terms of the problems of coordination between the two with regard to the application of the law, I suppose I might not be necessarily in the best position.... I mean, I can comment on individual cases and in terms of my experience with respect to individual cases in terms of
October 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Peter Edelmann