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Citizenship and Immigration committee I have five points and 20 seconds. Number one is language training. Number two would be the BVOR capacity. That's the frustration. People have all wanted to go, and there are not enough BVORs. I would avoid the yoyo, which was what happened for the community groups: they were
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee The last thing is the RSTP, to make sure Ms. Davis gets more money.
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee One needs to understand that privately sponsored refugees do not get income assistance of any kind. They are allowed to go to school, etc., so there might be a way.... The BVOR system, I guess, is a method to try to have the government help in some ways. If there was some way to
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee What I would say—because Action Réfugiés has been around for 20 years, and we weren't invented with the Syrian refugee crisis—is to get people out of Islamabad before six years and get people people out of Nairobi before four or five years. There is an injustice in how long peopl
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee Just so it's clear, the 4,000 privately sponsored—
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's all the—
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke
Citizenship and Immigration committee So they're not all with Action Réfugiés Montréal. There are a number of different organizations that are helping refugees. One needs to keep in mind that prior to the whole refugee situation with Syria, about 40% of Syrians in Canada lived in Montreal. There are a number of chu
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Clarke