Public Safety committee  I apologize for answering in English; it's just because of the translation issues. In many small communities that are policed by the RCMP, the RCMP is often the only federal presence in those communities. In some cases, it is the only governmental presence from outside a commun

Public Safety committee  Sorry, that's my habitual problem in testimony.

Public Safety committee  We need a different service delivery model. We need to return to community policing, increasing.... We have police, RCMP and also many urban services whose members do not live in the communities where they provide service. NSICOP's 2019 annual report reviewed inclusion and diver

Public Safety committee  I will close with my four points on action items. We need to hold middle management accountable. The CAF demonstrates the effect that can have in terms of curtailing the sorts of challenges we are seeing. The RCMP needs to release results of discipline hearings to the public. T

Public Safety committee  My thanks to the committee for the invitation. I will give my presentation in English, but I will answer your questions in both official languages. I want to begin with a caveat that I recognize that, as a white male tenured professor, I speak to this topic from a privileged p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a situation where people are dispensing with the formalities of national immigration policies on a large scale across countries—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're talking exclusively here about domestic issues. Nothing in this bill suggests to me that Canada's taking cues or coordinating with other countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's 10 seconds. The reason I wanted to weigh in is that too much of the conversation somehow focuses on protecting whoever gets here. We should be putting the emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable, as opposed to people who are deliberately dispensing with the formalities o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Look, we have to start somewhere, I think, given the current situation. I always say that hope is not a method. Just sitting and hoping something is going to change in light of the factors that are pointed out is not going to happen—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With regard to refugees, the Dublin negotiations, as you know, are at an impasse. One of the things that Canada needs to think about.... Yes, we need to establish an international regime among countries that are sought after as destination countries, ultimately, and, as the bill

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —can also—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're going to need incentives.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a very apt question, because of course the challenges that we're discussing here are not unique to Canada. They are challenges from across the world. One way to sum up the problem is that the supply of potential migrants greatly exceeds the fiscal and social capac

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have this problem regularly before committees, so I'll slow down. By way of example, two-thirds of the people who cross irregularly, the single largest group of migrants to Canada in term of irregular entrants, have been Nigerians who enter the United States on visitor visas.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's in the submission. I think there just hasn't been time to get it translated. The request came on a rather short fuse for me to appear.