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Citizenship and Immigration committee —to deal with the mechanisms in division 16?
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee Is there anything the government can do to strengthen those guarantees and ensure fairness in the asylum system—which we know is important—to allow Canada to continue to be a place of refuge?
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee Ms. Naso, thank you for being here today and for your leadership with the Yazidi community across the country with Operation Ezra in Winnipeg. It's been an important part of this government's leadership on resettlement, and I'm sure we will have more conversations ahead about o
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee I want to apologize, Mr. Leuprecht. I was just hoping for a quick answer before we ran out of time. If you're going to allow him, Chair, I'll allow for it.
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee Mr. Leuprecht, these would be the very conversations that take place in these international fora. Would you not agree?
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee It might be helpful for people at this table to understand how the IRB is better triaging claims for asylum as a way to make the system more efficient and ensure there is finality and fairness in a fast manner. Could we talk a little bit about that?
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee Mr. MacKinnon, I wanted to give you a chance to answer a question that I don't think you had an opportunity to answer properly earlier. What is the distinct difference between a refugee claimant who would have been barred from the ability to ask for asylum in Australia, who made
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay. Thank you. I wonder if folks at the table could talk in more specifics about the significant amount of activity that has taken place—not as a result of the AG's report, but coming out of the Yeates report that was tabled a number of years ago—to help build up the capacity
May 7th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee On the question of navigation, there's a local immigration partnership program funded by IRCC. Do your organizations connect with a local LIPS program and is that helping with the navigation of services and referral to services?
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourceyLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee But I'm on question time, Mr. Chair. I would suggest to my—
March 18th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, it is.
March 18th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would suggest that using words like “illegal” to describe those who would come and seek refuge in this country incites hate and fear and gives licence to the type of white supremacist movements that cause terror to take root in our country and around the world. I would ask my C
March 18th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey
Citizenship and Immigration committee Just to start the time here, Mr. Chair, we just saw all three party leaders stand up in this House and talk about the importance of our words and actions. We even had the leader of the official opposition stand and say—and I quote—that “we must be as forceful” with “our words as
March 18th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey
Citizenship and Immigration committee Just building on that—sorry, it's rapid fire—do you have any experience in not just working with federal government but provincial governments and professional colleges or professional accrediting societies that would have a role in better recognizing foreign credentials? Even th
February 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey
Citizenship and Immigration committee Craig, it's Matt DeCourcey here. Thanks for being back in front of the committee. When you were here last week you spoke about the role of ODA in helping to address some of these protracted refugee and migrant situations. Could you share your view on the role that unlocking or
December 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt DeCourcey