Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think those ideas are very promising. I would agree with you that it's concerning for many refugees who are coming to Canada through the resettlement system. It's in fact a kind of family reunification. I think we can channel those movements towards family reunification and,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I hate to break it to you, but I'm not sure there are countries that are doing it better. There are huge problems with how this kind of work is done in Europe. To be honest, I wouldn't want us looking eastward for insight on that. Globally speaking, I think Canada is actually do

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you mean people who want to enter Canada?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have clear legal commitments, and as a matter of first priority, we need to understand what those commitments are and stand by them. From that perspective, I think it's important to recognize that seeking asylum is not illegal. People do cross irregularly but there's a signifi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would argue that we should be thinking about areas where people do want to stay closer to home and making it viable for them to do so. This is really central to thinking about the issue of internal displacement and also support for refugees within regions of origin. We sometim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would agree with you that the safe third country agreement is not appropriate in the current context, particularly because of the dramatically different ways in which Canada and the United States assess the same refugee claims at the present moment. What we've seen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. In a broad conversation like this we need to be aware of the way in which we can implicitly assume that the goal should be to reduce the number of people who arrive. I would argue that the goal should be to make sure that people who need pr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. I'm a professor at McGill University, where my work focuses on questions around refugees and forced migration. In this capacity, I very much appreciate the chance to share some reflections with you on how Canada can improve its