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Foreign Affairs committee   committee, but it's also the international development committee. It's something that I think we sometimes miss a bit. We know that the United Nations has launched an appeal for $97 million to support the ethnic Armenian refugees who have fled Nagorno-Karabakh. Do you know

February 28th, 2024Committee meeting

Heather McPhersonNDP

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay, thank you. What is it that Canada can do, if we can, to help ease the problems with the refugees? I know that many women are having problems with organizations, with facing violence and with dealing with some of their sexual and reproductive health needs, because some

February 28th, 2024Committee meeting

Hedy FryLiberal

Industry committee  , seniors, youth transitioning from foster care and new refugees coming to Canada. Not many industries in Canada, or industries anywhere, offer these kinds of discounts under that framework. Our social purpose drives all the areas of our business, from how we invest to how we innovate

February 28th, 2024Committee meeting

Doug French

Citizenship and Immigration committee   with us the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Honourable Marc Miller, along with the officials. First I would love to welcome, on behalf of the committee members, Dr. Harpreet S. Kochhar, who is the deputy minister. He's not new to the department. He was the ADM

February 28th, 2024Committee meeting

The Chair Liberal

Foreign Affairs   and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA for short. Last week, the Minister of International Development was at the Rafah gates calling for a ceasefire with a supposed concern about aid not getting into Gaza, yet he is the minister responsible for defunding

February 27th, 2024House debate

Mike MorriceGreen

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, more than eight million people in Sudan have been displace through 10 months of war. This has been devastating for people in Sudan and for their family members in Canada. The special immigration measure for Ukrainians set important standards, and it should apply eve

February 27th, 2024House debate

Jenny KwanNDP

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, as the member well knows, the pathway for people fleeing war in Sudan opens today. We worked with a number of Sudanese umbrella organizations on this important measure so that Canadians are really showing that they are opening their doors to people fleeing war. I a

February 27th, 2024House debate

Marc MillerLiberal

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the asylum seekers file, the Minister of Immigration has some nerve. It has been since 2021 that Quebec has been calling on the federal government to reimburse the costs and ensure that asylum seekers are spread out among the provinces. It has been t

February 27th, 2024House debate

Alexis Brunelle-DuceppeBloc

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, I think that it is fair to talk about reality. Imagine if I send someone a bill for $500, we talk and the next day I hold a press conference to double the bill without justification. That is kind of what we are dealing with here. We are responsible governments. For

February 27th, 2024House debate

Marc MillerLiberal

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the bill would not be as high if the federal government dealt with asylum claims in a timely fashion. Former Liberal minister David Heurtel reminded us of that in the Journal de Montréal. Quebec experienced the same problems in 2018 under Philippe Couillard. Even the

February 27th, 2024House debate

Alexis Brunelle-DuceppeBloc

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the member is partly right. It is true that there has been a historic influx of asylum seekers in Canada and that those numbers have gone up by about 50% to 60%. There is more work to be done, but it does not involve sending money to Quebec because Quebec does not sp

February 27th, 2024House debate

Marc MillerLiberal

Official Languages committee   recently learned that the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship put a cap on the number of foreign students admitted to Canada. Thus far, Canada has not made an exception for francophone students. French-language post-secondary institutions have already expressed concerns

February 26th, 2024Committee meeting

Niki AshtonNDP

Official Languages committee   increased over the years, thanks to funding from Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, funding for entrepreneurship has not gone up in 20 years. The funding we get from PacifiCan, the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, has

February 26th, 2024Committee meeting

Mylène Letellier

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, the government already owed Quebec $470 million for services rendered to asylum seekers. Its debt has just climbed to $1 billion. These are not projections, these are the bills incurred for guaranteeing the asylum seekers quick access to social assistance, temporary

February 26th, 2024House debate

Alexis Brunelle-DuceppeBloc

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, as the member knows full well, since 2015, we have paid Quebec $5.2 billion under the arrangement we have with the Government of Quebec, the Canada-Quebec accord. We are prepared to do more. We are prepared to sit down and work with Quebec. Ideally, we do not do th

February 26th, 2024House debate

Marc MillerLiberal