Citizenship and Immigration committee  Language is important, but it shouldn't be so high a barrier as to wilfully exclude.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I just add before we leave that each of you is going to receive a little USB key that has all of our reports and all of our documents so that you have a chance to see them. We didn't want to chop down trees so we're going with the 21st century way of doing things.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, I don't think that dual citizens should be sent someplace else. I do believe that a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. I firmly believe that, but I do also believe—and I think this government has also maintained this—that if you lie to get your citizenship, in other

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not familiar enough with the law of statelessness to offer a reasoned opinion, other than to maybe offer a personal one. As I said, my late father came here and he was stateless. We're talking about the late 1940s. At that time, he ended up working towards Canadian citizens

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I accept partially what the professor has said; however, let me just speak very briefly on the whole issue of fraud and the revocation of citizenship. Let's be clear as to what the difference is. A person comes to this country, say after World War II, and is asked if he or she

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One thing, let's bear in mind—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is it over?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe in the next round I can come back to how revocation is not handled all that well by this country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have just a very brief comment. There does remain in place, as I understand it, judicial review on revocation of citizenship. For example, I was talking earlier about an individual who has now gone through 20 years of having his citizenship removed because of his work as a tr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As you see, we're looking at a 200-page book with about 60 recommendations, but in a nutshell, the key finding was this. I think it's an important distinction to make. In no way do immigrant and refugee communities come here with their imported conflict. As a matter of fact, one

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. The statement I made back in regards to Bill C-24 has not changed. I would like to reiterate what my colleague Professor Tamara Lenard has stipulated. When people like immigrants, refugees, stateless people come to this country, they're not looking

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Historically, immigrants and refugees who adopted Canada as their country of choice contributed to the development of Canada and its social, economic, and civil fabric. Today we stand on their shoulders. To conclude, my work with the Mosaic Institute has proven my belief that Ca

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Canadian citizenship and Bill C-6. I'm honoured to be here in my capacity as the executive director of the Mosaic Institute. The Mosaic Institute is a think and do tank that was founded in 2007. Our mandate is to create platform