Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to thank Canada for admitting my parents. I am a proud Canadian of Haitian origin, but I am first and foremost of Haitian origin. So I understand the problems and suffering people experience. In my office, I met with a woman who had been raped by 15 people and saw her hus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it is essential, certainly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the United States is not a safe country. Every day, I hear about people who, like in Canada, are afraid of getting caught, of getting lost in the black hole, or being victims of abuse. So I think we have to put an end to the safe third country agreement.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I have. Right now, I am in an office where we provide a service to refugees. We see more and more people who have no resources. Let's not forget that we are in a country where it is getting cold very fast. People are arriving with no coats and no boots. People have no food.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I do think that they would end up in other provinces instead of ending up primarily in Quebec, where they have had to endure the insults we heard during the election campaign. They were said to be carriers of COVID-19, when they are future healthcare guardian angels and they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Dhaliwal, like you, I am an immigrant. My parents fled Haiti under the Duvalier regime. We have to ask ourselves whether Canada has the will to save lives and admit people with dignity, when they have every reason for wanting to leave their countries. We must not forget that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have family living in the United States. I have nephews who are academics. They can experience the reality of being among the privileged. The people arriving via Roxham Road do not have that education and risk being used as modern-day slaves and possibly...

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would reiterate that in my opinion, we have to eliminate the safe third country agreement. I think people would be much less afraid of migrating, knowing they are able to enter at a port of entry whose role it is to admit people with dignity. Taking a route where you are told t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. Expanding that agreement with the United States to include the other member countries of the Five Eyes, instead of suspending it, would be an indication that Canada is increasingly closed to immigration and is ending up creating many more restriction

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, totally. We must not talk only about the organizations. Even the admission system at the border, both the Programme régional d'accueil et d'intégration des demandeurs d'asile and the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, has reached the breaking point. In my o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Refugee protection claimants are very grateful. At the border, I have not really heard any negative reports, or if so, just a few. As one of our colleagues suggested here, we could give migrants their "brown paper" or work permit when they cross the border, including a social in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I had the opportunity to go on location in Florida with the team from the program Enquête. We did learn that some people are taking advantage of the situation and there are actually significant amounts of money involved. Well before arriving in the United States, people will alre

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for that question. The United States uses precisely that safe third party agreement to send people to us whom they should be respectfully admitting. It is easier for them to take a very harsh approach, and that results in people not necessarily entering by regular bord

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.