Citizenship and Immigration committee  Quebec is in favour of the Refugee Appeal Division. Would you agree to funding to establish a Refugee Appeal Division for Quebec?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  ., which is a safe third country agreement. We do not have that at the moment. It is something we could explore in a broader reform of our refugee asylum system, but it's not something that we explored.

Citizenship and Immigration committee   applications for privately sponsored refugees and have issued 3,200 visas. But as I mentioned, many of the referrals, more than half of them, do not meet the criteria. They have all been folks who are in genuine need of protection. We could have had many more refugees in Canada today. We

Citizenship and Immigration committee   to be treated the same. One of the issues I raised at the time was this. Given the fact that the European Union has put protections in place for refugees that are at least as good as our own or better, have you in the department ever looked at what would happen if we would eliminate

Refugees   the motion is presented in the context of striking the right balance between our international obligations as a country under the universal declaration of human rights and the 1951 refugee convention and our obligations and our need to respond to the problems of irregular migration

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that this past year the number of refugee cases in Canada is considerably down. I guess the question would be whether this is due to the fact that they're being weeded out through this safe third country agreement. I don't know. That would be a question

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The very broad definition of terrorist groups and unofficial terrorist groups in the U.S. pact is also causing problems. There is a risk it will have huge repercussions on refugees who want to come to Canada. They cannot even apply for refugee status because they are blocked

Citizenship and Immigration committee   important document. It outlines the issues facing refugees very clearly. Again, it's an excellent piece of work and a very helpful one. I also want to thank you for your very strong language this morning and for the clarity of that language on the issues that you enumerated. I think

Citizenship and Immigration committee   to some group that could be recognized as being somewhat of a terrorist group in their country, then when they apply for refugee status in the United States, they will often be refused. We have a whole bunch of examples of this. When you look at what is considered material support

Citizenship and Immigration committee   and wonder what you can do to raise public awareness about it, because refugees are not a sexy issue. Refugees, as a matter of fact, too often get stigmatized and get tied in to criminality and security kind of stuff. It really is unfortunate, because they really cannot defend themselves

Citizenship and Immigration committee   for Migrants and Refugees, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the “migrant family“ as his theme. Recognizing that the experience of migration often leaves refugee and immigrant families disfigured and weakened, the Pope challenges us — churches, social society and governments alike — to make

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, absolutely, the Edmonds Resource Centre is helping. For example, the question was raised earlier about whether there are other groups helping with the refugee situation. We have many, many community groups assisting, and they just do a tremendous job in the city

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Many of us have found that often with refugee and immigrant populations the elementary school system is the only point of contact, in many ways, with the broader community, back and forth among the recent arrivals. Diana, could you say a bit more about the problem around

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Karen, in your presentation you mentioned the inadequacies of the health coverage that refugees get, the difficulties around transportation and interpretation, and how there doesn't seem to be any particular support for those kinds of programs. Could you tell us a bit more

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. I think many of the refugee families are composed of six to eight children, and particularly, we're focusing on those most in need. We're taking families that need to seek specialist treatment in tropical diseases, HIV. So you're paying for three zones, where the actual