Immigration And Refugee Board  Mr. Speaker, the minister has not only violated the Privacy Act but also basic justice. We are talking about an investigation here and witnesses. As a former police officer if I were to release information to an accused in a crime of those people who were accusing me or an indiv

Immigration And Refugee Board  I would ask the hon. member to put his question, please.

Immigration And Refugee Board  I would ask the hon. member to put his question now, please.

Immigration And Refugee Board  Mr. Speaker, will this minister admit that he has made a gross and inexcusable violation similar to those ministers in Ontario who had to resign and consider doing the same?

Immigration And Refugee Board  Mr. Speaker, I ask the member to put the entire situation in proper context. I first received five names from a media outlet. Upon receiving those names I wrote the chair of the board to have her look into the allegations made by these five individuals. In my letter to her I exp

Immigration And Refugee Board  Mr. Speaker, the immigration minister released confidential names and testimony to his embattled appointee to the IRB, Michael Schelew. These were names of people who had accused Schelew of intimidation and wrongdoing but gave testimony under the promise of confidentiality. My o

Immigration And Refugee Board  Mr. Speaker, throughout the process I took great care in terms of not releasing or disclosing those names. Once the chair made her report available to me, my counsel wrote a letter to the deputy chair asking for his response to that report and the appropriateness of the recommend

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member knows or should know, this problem is one that affects all refugee receiving countries. The minister travelled to Russia very recently to deal with international concerns in this matter. An international conference will be taking place within

Immigration  Mr. Speaker, the answer to the first question is no. I confirm that the chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board wrote to me yesterday suggesting that there would be reasons for conducting a fuller review. Yesterday I instructed our department's legal counsel out

Immigration   in an independent or a business class immigrant or a refugee they also have the legitimate right to bring in their families. We have also tried to seek a balance because there are four different categories in the immigration program. We want each category to have an appropriate market share

South Africa   to acquaint themselves with how we develop our foreign policy. Moreover, South Africa asked for and was given advice on various issues, especially on the refugee status claims processing system it is setting up. Canada offered to help South Africa become an active member of several

Ethics   secretary general call me yesterday. My question is focused on the Deputy Prime Minister in this instance. Yesterday in an interview the minister of immigration stated he would not send a letter to the Immigration and Refugee Board. He said it would be wrong for him to write to a quasi

Immigration   already to save those taxpayers dollars? Changes to refugee policy, there are virtually none, except an ongoing amnesty that rewards those who can tie up the system for three years. There are no changes to control and enforcement, except for the defective Bill C-44 which is already

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   that the members opposite are criticizing. They get funding because they are coming here as refugees. They have left everything behind. The majority are women with young children coming here for safety. These people do not come here with a lot. This agency gives these people coming to our

Petitions   150,000 persons per year, with the basic intake of not less than 50 per cent of the total composed of carefully selected skilled workers required by the Canadian economy, and that our refugee acceptance rate be brought in line with the average asylum destination countries