Citizenship and Immigration committee  One story that really hits close to home, because I'm a student myself, is with a stateless Vietnamese man who was 22 years of age. I became friends with him. His name was Le Huy. He was admitted to university on compassionate grounds. His professor let him into university, but a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. It's illegal to sell goods on the street, so it's a catch-22: starve or try to survive and go to prison for it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. Something else I find really touching is that children who have parents who are stateless are born into statelessness. There's no way out of it; they will remain stateless. Even if stateless Vietnamese men are married to Filipina spouses, their children are still stateles

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, members of the committee. Being born and raised in Canada, a nation that prides itself on freedom and equality, I did not find it easy to grasp the complete concept of what it means to be a stateless person. Now, as a firsthand witness of this tragic disregard f