Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I would say is that the minister is stating that it will be charter-compliant, and the legislation states that the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act shall be administered in conformity with the charter. But at the end of the day, it will be the courts that have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are three sacred categories that cannot be touched. Number one, refugees outside Canada are not going to be affected by this legislation. Number two, family class will not be affected by this legislation.

Specific Claims Tribunal Act   and the other is on refugee determination. Despite efforts to change that over the years, someone could be forced to leave Canada. Could we imagine if we were forced to leave Canada on an non-appealable decision of one person? That would be a pretty sad state of affairs. I think

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The government has tabled amendments on March 14, 2008 to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The stated goals of the government are to create a more responsive/streamlined immigration system, and to reduce the existing backlog of primarily skilled worker

Citizenship and Immigration committee   with the introduction of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or IRPA. IRPA, in its present form, is an exquisite piece of legislation, whose beauty comes from the fact that the selection of economic immigrants is based purely on objective criteria. At its core is the fundamental principle

Citizenship and Immigration committee   now. I'll list them for you: interdiction, enforcement, refugees, visitors, students, work permits, spouses, children, provincial nominee programs, and soon the expanded Canada experience class. It's not going to be possible, with this legislation and the existing platform

Citizenship and Immigration committee   policies to be developed with great care and in keeping with the principles of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the same time, the policies must respect the foundation objectives of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, including universality, family reunification

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. I'm talking about the refugees. So you'd agree with me on that now, would you?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Would you confirm for me that Bill C-50 itself does not relate to refugees or protected persons, either in Canada or outside of Canada? Would you confirm that fact?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you're a refugee in Canada and wish to bring your spouse or your children to Canada, and they are not members of the family class because you didn't declare them when you came into the country, for example—but we're not going to remove you—you'd have to do a humanitarian

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is nothing in this legislation, in the amendments, that would say that the minister couldn't put refugees to the bottom of the line in terms of prioritizing.

Finance committee   will be changed and their applications will be refused without notice to them. After their fee has been collected, after they've waited their turn, their application could be, as the Canadian Council for Refugees said, shredded. It has really huge implications also for our international

Finance committee  Mr. Boudjenane, I would like you to come back to something you said earlier about the fact that since September 11, 2001, refugee applications are subjected to more scrutiny. Can you tell me more about that, please?

Finance committee   of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, or IRPA as it's known, that decisions based on discretion were removed from the immigration selection system, at least as it pertains to economic immigrants. IRPA, in its present form, is a fine piece of legislation in which the selection

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second set of petitions are with regard immigration and are signed by people from across Canada. The petitioners are concerned that the Conservative government has introduced major damaging and dangerous changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act