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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you to all our witnesses for your powerful testimony today, for your advice, and for your appeal for extraordinary action to rescue the survivors of the continuing genocide. I would like to just refer back to a suggestion made by a government colleague yesterday that becau
July 19th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Can you offer a ballpark set of figures in terms of the archdiocese's work over the past five years, for example, with the Iraqi and more recently Syrian refugees?
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee I wonder if I could bounce off you a complaint that I've received through the Armenian community, who said that in three cases they've documented, applicants for refugee status at the Beirut mission were refused on the grounds that the applicants didn't meet the criteria of a “we
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee But in terms of refugees from Iraq and Syria...?
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you.
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. Thank you, Senator Martin, Mr. Mark, and Professor Macklin, for your testimony here today. I'm sure that every member of the committee wishes you well, Mr. Mark, on your mission next week, and looks forward to the answers and the information you bring back. The gove
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think Ms. Rempel has a question first.
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'd just like to continue along the path of considering the vulnerable, the persecuted, the minorities who have managed to escape Syria and Iraq but have failed to enter the UNHCR camps for designation because they fear discrimination or worse—perhaps renewed persecution in those
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee We've seen with the current government's accelerated refugee program the initial 10,00 of the 25,000 or so already in the process of private sponsorship. We know that with private sponsors across the board, many of them with specific focus on ethnic or religious groups and with f
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'd just like to continue to try understand why the current government is not prioritizing the acceptance and processing of persecuted minorities, including the Yazidis and others. Mr. Orr, I come back to your point that to be eligible for resettlement in Canada, refugees must b
July 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Chair, very briefly, and as a guest member of the committee, with respect, I appreciate the amendment. Going forward under the amendment, we should keep in mind the appeal by the UN report today which says that a genocide has not only happened with respect to the Yazidi people, b
June 16th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee —which is against the law in Ontario.
June 16th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. Mr. Mandarino, you spoke about work site safety. I'm wondering whether English training in the jargon of work sites as it relates to workplace safety is provided by employers or by your union.
June 16th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for that endorsement. Mr. Syed, you spoke to the housing issue, particularly in Scarborough, and the shortage of affordable housing. We've heard stories in recent months of some unethical landlords taking advantage of newcomers. I'm wondering whether you have any exam
June 16th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent
Citizenship and Immigration committee Have I time for one more question, Chair?
June 16th, 2016Committee meeting
Peter Kent