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Mr. Chair, in Bill C-3, Conservatives wanted to add security screening provisions, but Liberals voted no. Is the minister concerned that her chain migration bill will allow terrorists to gain Canadian citizenship?
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Mr. Chair, it is important to note that the government has brought in millions of people using a system that does not work. The minister is expecting about two million temporary visas to expire this year. That is about 160,000 per month. She also expects them to leave. Can the minister confirm that temporary residents are leaving Canada at these rates?
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Mr. Chair, it works out to about 160,000 people leaving per month. Can the minister confirm that those are the kinds of numbers that she is seeing in her department?
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Mr. Chair, how many undocumented non-citizens are currently in Canada?
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Mr. Chair, we understand the rules, but my question is, how many are there? The department must have an estimate. I am sure the minister has a deputy minister sitting right there. They must have an estimate of how many undocumented people are in Canada right now.
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Mr. Chair, I did not hear a number in there. I know that a couple years ago, IRCC at committee estimated that half a million undocumented people were in Canada. Is that number still accurate, or does the minister just not know?
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Mr. Chair, I think what is more important to Canadians, what they really want to know, is whether there are half a million people who are not supposed to be here.
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Mr. Chair, I think I will go with half a million, because I did not hear anything different. VFS Global runs 164 visa application centres for the government. Reports say that they charged extra for premium lounge access, which included faster turnaround and free drinks. If VFS was flagged for fraud and security risk, why is IRCC still relying on it?
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Mr. Chair, can the minister guarantee that no inadmissible person entered Canada because of weaknesses at a VFS centre?
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Mr. Chair, the minister seems very scared to give a number. The Liberal news organization, the CBC, says, “Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship”. How does the minister sleep at night, knowing her estimate of a few thousand might actually be a few million?
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Mr. Chair, Bill C-3 introduced unending chain migration to Canada. The minister told the committee this bill would create fewer than 5,000 new Canadians per year. Does she stand by her estimate?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister stand by her estimate of fewer than 5,000 new Canadians per year?
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Mr. Chair, I will help the minister a bit. Her department has already confirmed over 2,600 new Bill C-3 citizens in just two months. Perhaps she wants to revise her forecast?
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Mr. Chair, the record shows that tens of thousands of people from the United States who are looking to trace their ancestry are starting to apply for citizenship. Did the minister tell cabinet that Bill C-3 could make millions of Americans eligible for Canadian citizenship?
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Mr. Chair, in proposing Bill C-3, did the minister consider excluding claims through distant ancestors?
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Mr. Chair, we know that new citizens can vote, obviously. Did the minister consult Elections Canada about where these new citizens through Bill C-3 will vote when they have never had a physical address in Canada?
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Mr. Chair, the minister said IRGC terrorists are not permitted to enter Canada, but they are here by the hundreds, and probably more. Will she at least talk with her minister colleagues and commit to removing every IRGC member currently terrorizing Persian Canadians?
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Mr. Chair, why is the minister prioritizing IRGC terrorists over Persian Canadians?
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Mr. Chair, Global News reported that Tahawwur Rana, who had been convicted in the U.S. of a terrorism offence, obtained Canadian citizenship in 2001. How did someone convicted of a terrorist offence obtain Canadian citizenship in the first place?
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Mr. Chair, why does it take years and multiple immigration ministers to attempt to revoke Mr. Rana's citizenship?
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Mr. Chair, if citizenship was obtained through alleged misrepresentation, why is verification not immediate?
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Mr. Chair, if people have gotten their citizenship through misrepresentation, deportation should be immediate.
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Mr. Chair, Conservatives gave the minister multiple opportunities to admit tonight that the Liberals have failed the victims of foreign criminals. Her answer was “Oh well”, and she demurred on the importance. I will give her one more chance. Will she commit tonight to amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act so foreign criminals no longer get sentencing discounts?
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Mr. Chair, we gave the minister 10 separate opportunities to denounce the Kitchener strangler. She refused. Does she condone the strangling of women by foreign criminals in the city of Kitchener, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, the minister brags about her first year, but what people see is fraud, security failings, compassion for non-citizen criminals, and an immigration system that Canadians do not trust anymore. How does she defend that record?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said that our immigration system is “under control”. Ordinary Canadians know this is not true. For example, in Canada, we have no idea who is here or not here, because the government has no way of tracking who is leaving the country or when they leave. When asked about this yesterday, the immigration minister said she wondered the same thing. The Prime Minister …
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Mr. Speaker, wow, I did not know that we had express entry for terrorists. It is clear that everyone has lost faith in the Minister of Immigration overseeing even the simplest parts of her job. This is the seventh Liberal immigration minister, and Conservatives knew from day one that she would make the mess worse. The media are now calling for the minister to be removed. Liberal MPs have called fo…
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Mr. Speaker, when someone has been denied entry into Canada, a temporary resident permit is their last resort. The Minister of Immigration recently issued one of these permits to Mehdi Taj, and he landed in Toronto this week. Anybody who knows how to google can quickly figure out that this man is a former commander of the murderous Iranian regime, which is listed as a terrorist entity in Canada. T…
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Mr. Speaker, for years, residents and businesses in Saskatoon West warned the Liberals that the drug injection site was creating chaos and disorder in the community. The Liberals approved and funded the site, even though it was within 200 metres of a school. Now, the whole operation has collapsed into bankruptcy and closure. That should be the end of this failed experiment. Saskatoon needs hope, r…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday at committee, the Auditor General revealed multiple situations where the immigration department failed to investigate, or even detect, significant cases of fraud. At the same meeting, the deputy minister of immigration pleaded ignorance on the topic, saying, “it's my fourth week on the job...so I can't answer the question”. In fact, for two straight hours, he had zero answer…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister stood in this place and tried to tell Canadians that immigration is under control. Well, here are the facts. The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned by 178% since 2015. The Auditor General revealed that 97% of student fraud cases are not even being investigated, and the asylum backlog is a staggering 300,000 cases. However, Canadians cannot find jobs, hou…
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Mr. Speaker, he forgot scurvy in his riding, check mark. The Prime Minister says things are under control, but with seven ministers in 11 years, the system is getting worse and worse. Yesterday, the justice minister issued a fake apology for his failed tenure as immigration minister by blaming the provinces, as if he held no responsibility. His successor, the current Minister of Culture, oversaw t…
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Mr. Speaker, I am happy to present a petition today on behalf of residents of Fairhaven, Meadowgreen, Parkridge and Confederation Park in Saskatoon, all of which have faced significant challenges as crime, chaos and disorder take over the neighbourhoods. Violent crime is up 10% in Saskatoon, with increases in assaults, murders and robberies, and Saskatoon residents feel unsafe in their homes and o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal incompetence in our immigration system keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the Auditor General revealed widespread fraud in the Liberals' international student program. Even worse, of the 150,000 suspected fraud cases, the department reviewed less than 3% of them. This is only part of the Liberal immigration mess. Did the Liberal Prime Minister fix this? Not at all. Besides ke…
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Mr. Speaker, unlike that member, I do not work for the PMO. The truth is that the immigration minister is so incompetent that her own Liberal colleagues told CBC that she was not fit for the job. The mess created by the previous two is self-evident, yet Liberals are pushing ahead with hundreds of thousands of new foreign work permits with no plans to remove the millions of expiring foreign visa ho…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present a petition on behalf of residents of Fairhaven, Meadowgreen, Parkridge and Confederation in Saskatoon, who are all concerned about the significant challenges they are facing because of crime, chaos and disorder in their neighbourhoods. They are concerned about the drug use and homelessness that have overrun their neighbourhoods, making public area schoo…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to speak to a great private member's bill from my colleague from Calgary Nose Hill. This is a good bill. What I like about it is its simplicity. It is very simple and common sense. I want to commend the member for her hard work on this and her understanding of where Canadians are. This bill resides at the intersection of two key areas. One is crime, which pe…
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Mr. Speaker, under the present Liberal government, foreign conflicts are spilling into Canadian streets, and Jewish Canadians are paying the price. Just last week, three synagogues were damaged by gunfire. This is not really surprising, since Liberal immigration policies approve some asylum claims without even talking to the claimant. After the fact, some are found to be foreign agents who should …
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to present a petition on behalf of the residents of Fairhaven, Meadow Green, Parkridge and Confederation Park in Saskatoon about the challenges they are facing because of the crime, chaos and disorder that has taken over their neighbourhoods. The petition speaks to how neighbourhoods have been overrun with drug use and homelessness, making public areas un…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about a young man from Saskatoon's Hampton Village, Tyrell Harder. Tyrell is the kind of neighbour who quietly makes our community stronger simply by showing up and serving others. Raised right here in Saskatoon West, Tyrell is a proud graduate of Bedford Road Collegiate. For years, he has volunteered at the Bedford Road Invitational Tournament, giving his time so young…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister falsely stated that he had the immigration system under control. Does he realize his own immigration department is rubber-stamping asylum claims from terrorist-sponsoring countries like Afghanistan, Yemen and Iran? We just heard that the minister does not even realize that she is auto-approving claims from Pakistan, one of whose nationals was trying to cla…
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Mr. Speaker, it is embarrassing. The ministers do not even know how their own system works. Yesterday, the Prime Minister falsely claimed he had the immigration system under control. He blindly expressed full confidence in his immigration minister. These are the facts: 300,000 asylum claims, a four-year backlog, nearly three million temporary residents with expiring permits and no plan to remove t…
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Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago we had a stable immigration system that Canadians were proud of. Now the Liberals have transferred to automated approvals and have abandoned security checks from certain countries. People can enter Canada, make a claim for asylum and receive approval in the mail without even talking to a government official. It is auto-approval. The countries listed will shock members. Ir…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today to speak to our motion. I am going to talk a bit about the interim federal health program and then a few other things. The first point I want to make clearly is that the program creates a two-tiered health system in our country. It has a Cadillac benefits system for failed asylum claimants and a basic system for regular Canadians. That is the design of t…
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Mr. Speaker, it is definitely in poor taste to put forward incorrect information, which is what we have been hearing all day from the other side. The PBO did his analysis of $1.5 billion. The Liberals are going to do a copay system, so maybe the number is going to be a little smaller. It is still a billion-dollar program. What we have seen from the government is not a reduction in the number of re…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to pick up on something the member said in that question, which are the accusations from the other side that we do not care about immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. We absolutely do. What we are trying to do here is find a way to make the system work better so legitimate refugees and legitimate asylum seekers who come to our country are treated well, so regular Canadians …
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Mr. Speaker, we have never said that; it is the Liberals who keep saying that. I want to highlight that it is bogus asylum claimants we are focused on. I will give the House a really good example. In B.C. recently, there were 15 people who were going down the road of being convicted of a crime. Guess what they did. Every single one of them claimed asylum as a way to avoid the results of their acti…
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Mr. Speaker, six million Canadians do not have access to a family doctor, and it takes 30 weeks for the average Canadian to see a specialist. However, the Liberals use Canadian taxpayer dollars to fund a Cadillac health care system for asylum claimants, including free access to glasses and contact lenses, physiotherapy, nursing homes and hearing aids. These are free benefits that regular citizens …
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Mr. Speaker, it does not change the fact that the Liberals have created a two-tier health care system that disadvantages ordinary Canadians. The Liberals continue to betray Canadians, putting bogus asylum claimants first by giving them access to health care benefits that regular citizens do not get. We just learned that the government automatically gives residency to refugees from North Korea, Afg…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek. I am going to start by making sure that everybody is aware that I was a home builder in my previous life. I was a small home builder, but I still believe that I built more houses in 10 years than the government has built in 10 years. Conservatives want to build homes. We do not want to build bureaucracy, where…
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