Finance committee  I have a very quick question for you. A couple came to see me in my capacity as a member of Parliament. They had exhausted their two or three refugee status applications--

Citizenship and Immigration committee   members of the United Buddhist Congregation--who have come out to support us. As we all know, there are currently 20 million refugees worldwide. So why should we step in and help this group? First of all, I just want to say that Canada has a great history of helping the boat people

Finance committee  For some separated refugee children, the agency is about the only option they have to reunite their families. If you close off applications from outside the country, you are closing off that family reunification. We're a community that has gone through family separation

Citizenship and Immigration committee   a submission for his father to go to Australia because we knew that Australia could only take a limited number of people. So no. In fact, the community is asking Canada to consider this group in the same way as any other refugee group. They will have to undergo medical tests, like others

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to continue along the same lines as Borys. The will of the committee is that these persons be recognized as refugees. The committee had unanimously endorsed a motion to that effect. I don't see a problem with our drafting and tabling a motion that could be debated next

Citizenship and Immigration committee   stepped up to the plate and done a better job than we have on this issue, and I still think that opportunity exists for Canada. I think the country of asylum class is the appropriate way to go, given the experience of these people. Don't accept that they aren't refugees by any

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hi. My name is Patrick Nguyen and I'm 12 years old. I've never seen my father before, and I live in Toronto with my mother and sister. So far there have been many Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines, and they want to come to Canada. One of them is my father. I really want him

Citizenship and Immigration committee   that the Canadian government accept approximately 500 stateless Vietnamese as refugees has been passed by this very committee. Subsequently, in March 2005 the immigration minister at the time, the Honourable Joe Volpe, announced a new public policy allowing up to 200 stateless Vietnamese

Information & Ethics committee  , but I have not heard that kind of discussion in the context of the Privacy Act. The Privacy Act provisions for disclosure are important to the administration of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

Information & Ethics committee  Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, within the regulations at subsections 150.1(1) and 150.1(2), there are requirements there also that Parliament review some of those arrangements and agreements that we enter into.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very complex question, and it requires me to parse it out a little bit. Basically, our powers at the border are derived from the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act together with the Customs Act. When you arrive at the border, you can anticipate questions. We have

Information & Ethics committee  , as they have a right to come into Canada. It is enshrined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that a Canadian citizen has the right to enter. With regard to multiple persons with the name being out there, there could be many people with that name. I think Senator Kennedy was one

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. The first and second wave were predominantly economic immigrants, although a substantial number of the second wave were also political refugees, but like the third wave, very few of them had any knowledge of English or French. As well, very few had any form of higher

Citizenship and Immigration committee   for Refugees, Janet Dench, executive director, who is in Montreal as well. Welcome to all of you. Let's hope it all runs smoothly here by video conferencing. Mr. Clerk, I guess everyone would have an opening statement. Am I correct in assuming that? So I will go first of all to Jenna

Committees of the House   apart. I have in my riding a family where the husband met the wife. She was a refugee claimant. They got married and had two Canadian children. CBSA knocked at their door and said, “We're sorry. You have to go”. When the mother left, she took her two Canadian children with her