Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-02-22 11:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ed Komarnicki (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"448742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it was certainly a pleasure to hear some of the meaningful and helpful suggestions put forward by the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78519\" href=\"/politicians/bill-siksay/\" title=\"Bill Siksay\">Burnaby\u2014Douglas</a>. The comments regarding private sponsorship and how highly motivated the parties are behind it is something we should encourage and move forward on. It is a good suggestion, no doubt.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"448743\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have a question relating to the issue he raised with respect to the Refugee Appeal Division and, without getting into the matter, whether it should or should not be. Would the member agree with me that, in the current system we now have, it takes an inordinate length of time for a determination to be ultimately made and that just simply implementing an appeal division without dealing with the system in a more systemic and larger way would add an additional five or more months, in some cases perhaps even longer?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"448744\" data-originallang=\"en\">Given that we have the right of appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal on a number of grounds, that we have pre-removal risk assessments that take place independently from the IRB hearings, that we also have humanitarian and compassionate grounds that can be made at any point in time in the system which cumulatively has added perhaps years to the determination process, does the member have any suggestions on how the system, in a systemic and larger way beyond just the appeal provision itself, can be dealt with to have the process expedited and the matter of the time it takes to make a determination on all those issues handled in such a fashion that Canadians and the public would have it done in a reasonable time at a reasonable cost? I would like to hear the member's thoughts on that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"448742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 ravi d'entendre quelques-unes des propositions s\u00e9rieuses et utiles qu'a faites le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78519\" href=\"/politicians/bill-siksay/\" title=\"Bill Siksay\">Burnaby\u2014Douglas</a>. Il a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 le programme de parrainage priv\u00e9 et l'appui qu'il suscite chez les partis, et nous devrions encourager sa mise en oeuvre. Il ne fait aucun doute qu'il s'agit l\u00e0 d'une bonne suggestion. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"448743\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai une question \u00e0 poser au sujet de la Section d'appel des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, qu'il a \u00e9voqu\u00e9e. Sans vouloir entrer dans les d\u00e9tails, je me demande si elle devrait exister ou non. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 convient-il que, dans le syst\u00e8me actuel, il faut beaucoup de temps pour rendre une d\u00e9cision et que simplement mettre en oeuvre une section d'appel sans modifier le syst\u00e8me dans son ensemble ajouterait cinq mois ou plus au processus et, dans certains cas, encore davantage?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"448744\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme on a le droit d'interjeter appel devant la Cour d'appel f\u00e9d\u00e9rale pour un certain nombre de motifs, que des \u00e9valuations des risques avant l'expulsion sont effectu\u00e9es ind\u00e9pendamment des audiences de la CISR et qu'on peut \u00e9galement invoquer des motifs d'ordre humanitaire \u00e0 n'importe quel moment, ce qui, au total, ajoute des ann\u00e9es au processus de d\u00e9termination du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a-t-il des suggestions \u00e0 faire sur la fa\u00e7on dont on pourrait modifier le syst\u00e8me, de fa\u00e7on plus globale, au lieu de ne toucher qu'\u00e0 la disposition d'appel, afin d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le processus et de prendre plus rapidement des d\u00e9cisions sur toutes ces questions, de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 ce que les co\u00fbts et les d\u00e9lais soient raisonnables pour les Canadiens? J'aimerais entendre l'opinion du d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 ce sujet. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/2/22/ed-komarnicki-7/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/ed-komarnicki/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1539/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1930331",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion--Citizenship and Immigration",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/2/22/",
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