Citizenship and Immigration committee   to count past the number five, so I don't know what else is going to be on their list of priorities. I have a few questions for you that are quite straightforward, simply trying to elicit your thoughts and your views on a few different issues. One of them is the refugee appeal division

Citizenship and Immigration committee   cases. Are you looking to expand the program or not? One final point relates to the issue of undocumented workers. We're talking about refugees; we find there's only a certain number we take into the country. It's a similar case with immigrants. Those who come some other way

Committees of the House   Association for Community Living; Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies; Canadian Association of Law Teachers; Canadian Association of the Deaf; Canadian Auto Workers Union; Canadian Bar Association; Canadian Council for Refugees; Canadian Council of Muslim Women; Canadian

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What subject are we addressing, Clerk, or is it just general issues pertaining to refugees? Is it just general refugee issues? I haven't seen the agenda yet.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When Mr. Morin was addressing Madame Faille's question, he talked about the particular circumstances of immigration decisions. I suspect that with a refugee case there could be more urgency, and it could be more problematic in the sense that someone could have been removed

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, these were immigration appeal files. Mr. Bourbonnais was a board member on the Immigration Appeal Division, so these were not refugee claims that he was sitting on. There were just under approximately 900 files that Mr. Bourbonnais sat on at the board. The review

Citizenship and Immigration committee   method a refugee claimant and his counsel may lodge a complaint against a commissioner, whether this complaints procedure is public and whether it is made available on the site. Is there a committee which considers this type of complaint? How does the system work? Also, perhaps you

Supply   to check and they are only for Canada. Can the hon. member not see that a criminal can walk into Canada instantly? There are no medical checks. The member can verify this any place where there is an immigration port. The refugee claimant is given a package of documents, asked to report

Bill C-272 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (sponsorship of relative)

and Refugee Protection Act (sponsorship of relative)   Loi modifiant la Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés (parrainage d’un parent) First reading, November 5, 2004   Première lecture le 5 novembre 2004         Summary Sommaire This enactment allows a Canadian citizen

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, the government has failed to implement the merit-based refugee appeal division provided for in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. In response to sanctuary situations, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration has suggested that churches accept

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act  . Here we see reason clashing with passion. Bill C-436, sponsored by the hon. member for Vancouver East, seeks to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The proposed amendment reads as follows: Subject to the regulations, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident may, once

Foreign Affairs committee   who works in democracy promotion learns as much in the countries they are working with. What we hope to achieve in our program at Queen's, for example, is to create a multilateral source of democracy promotion so that when we work with refugees in Bosnia, the next time we're asked

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act  Mr. Speaker, as the citizenship and immigration critic for the Bloc Quebecois, I am pleased to rise at second reading of Bill C-11, an act respecting immigration to Canada and the granting of refugee protection to persons who are displaced, persecuted or in danger. This bill

Liberal Party of Canada  —Ville-Marie thought it fitting to reappoint her ex-husband to the Immigration and Refugee Board. The Immigration and Refugee Board had other scary appointments, including the husband of none other than the member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine. As justice minister, the member

An Act to amend Certain Acts in relation to DNA Identification  Mr. Speaker, I have encountered over a number of years situations where DNA testing has actually helped my constituents, people who have come often as refugees fleeing from other countries. I know east Africa was mentioned. I am thinking of one case where a family had a number