Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just that I agree. I was a defender of keeping the safe third country agreement for a long period of time after all the people with whom I share connections had switched to the other side, which was that it was time to abandon the agreement. Actually, I think we need to abandon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that the Scandinavian countries actively welcome and slot their urgent spots for LGBTQ refugees. Finland and Norway, I believe, and also the Netherlands, are three other countries that are welcoming LGBTQ refugees right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. In fact, they come here for best practices. The Netherlands was recently here touring to see how we are going forward in that space.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for inviting me to talk to you here today. I appear in two capacities: first as a professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, where my research is on the experience of refugee sponsors, and second as a coordinator of Rai

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I only wanted to say that the reason we were talking about the distinction between naturalized and naturally born Canadians as dual citizens is that two members of this discussion brought up the issue of oath, and only one category of dual citizenship are oath-takers. The only o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes I do.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In general my understanding of Bill C-6 is that it goes back to the prior status quo about language requirements. Is that mistaken?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I didn't look specifically into that. In general I'm in favour of a very low bar for linguistic acquisition. I naturalized into the United States, and I believe the English test consisted of my having to read the following sentence, “George Washington was at some point Presiden

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And the reason to refuse to allow revocation is not only that it's objectionable in principle but also because of the practical dangers of the slippery slope.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm afraid I don't have any comments on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks for the question. I hadn't actually thought about that in relation to this bill. The set of international documents that cover statelessness effectively say that individuals have—and this is the Universal Declaration on Human Rights—a right to nationality, and the right

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have three things to say. One is that dual citizens of Canada don't all come to their dual citizenship by taking an oath. Some of us were born that way. I understand from your comments that you're comfortable discriminating against naturalized Canadians only.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's what that is. Agreeing that the nature—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Discrimination in the sense.... You're imbuing a negative attitude toward that, but you're discriminating in the sense of making discriminations that put Canadians in two different kinds of categories: the set of Canadians who have a full set of rights to be protected by the Cana

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That means your slippery slope is incredibly dangerous.