Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, the short answer to the first question she raised—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you want the answer or do you not want the answer? Proposed subsection 10.4(1) says clearly there would be no “conflicts with any international human rights instrument...”. Second, yes. The bill doesn't say, for conditional spouses, residents, whether or not it will be count

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll give you reasons. We have discussed it in our meetings, and it came out even in our presentations to the Major commission, chaired by Justice Major. We are very perturbed by the criminals who use Canadian citizenship as a shield to commit crime. We have a very good example

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the example you gave is a very pertinent one. Even though Nelson Mandela was convicted by the then South African government, we, as Canadians, did not condemn him. I think the same thing will happen.... The bill says that it has to be equal to a conviction in the Canadi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  May I add that, for any opinion a lawyer gives, I can find another lawyer who will give you the opposite opinion?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think they should have the.... In the bill, if I read it right—and you can correct me, because I'm no expert in the legal mumbo-jumbo—it says that the matters of national security will come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, if they are under the Federal Court, they would automatically have the right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They will have.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. There's no doubt that they should conform to the charter. The laws have to be obeyed. The problem is that there has been a philosophy of political correctness in this country for the last few years, and also a philosophy of entitlement. People who become citizens want all

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For this bill, these provisions that I talked about, they are contained in there. There's a provision there that nothing will be contradicting international human rights. I can quote you the section that is there. If I read it right—again, I'm not a lawyer but I went to the bill—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it's not anything new. When I came to Canada in 1968, at that time the requirement was five years, except that there was a loophole for Commonwealth citizens. For them it was three years. So it is not anything unusual. Also, many countries around the world have a five-year

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Such Canadians have no hesitation in importing their terrorist activities into Canada for their perceived just cause, just as it was in Air India 182. In summary, we, with the first-hand experience of the aftermath of the Air India 182 tragedy, ask all members of Parliament to s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I thank the committee for giving us an opportunity to testify. From the perspective of victims impacted directly by the most heinous violent crime in Canadian history, namely the terrorist bombing of Air India flight 182 on June 23, 1985, Air India 182 Victims Families Associat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is. It is not a new phenomena. Even the Air India tragedy was a result of radicals who brought their problems from somewhere outside Canada into Canada. Let me put it this way, if Mr.Talwinder Singh Parmar had been extradited from Germany into India way back when, probably th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There may be some. I think probably the sociologists would tell you that. I'm not saying there are no issues; there definitely are issues.