Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly. I believe that as soon as they start the process as a refugee claimant, they should be flagged as someone who doesn't have to wait to be accepted in order to get medical support or benefits from the government because they have to wait until the hearing. Now, as we all k

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your questions. I will be very quick. I do believe that, when it comes to LGBTIQ cases, every case is individual. It's very personal. Every claim has to be its own, and that's the part where mentioning countries and their reports of progress on LGBTIQ rights can b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Because of the time, I will focus on one particular group of the LGBTIQ, and that's the trans community inside the LGBTIQ refugee process, and the newcomers who are coming, but definitely refugee claimants who are going through or have been through the sex reassignment process or

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for mentioning that. It is a model that is quite unusual around the world, and we're all kind of proud of something that we have in Canada, that we can privately sponsor a refugee. Not many countries, or none, have that model where citizens can sponsor privately. When

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I'm still connected to my country because my whole family is there. I'm the only one who left the country. I'm connected from that point of view but also from the activism point. I think my leaving the country also spiked a little bit of other types of activism, that more pe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Honourable Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I first would like to acknowledge the Algonquin nation, whose traditional and unceded territory we are gathered upon today. Also, in becoming a convention refugee in Canada, I am