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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 21
 
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
 

The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration met in a televised session at 3:32 p.m. this day, in Room C-110, 1 Wellington Street, the Vice-Chair, Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe, Joe Daniel, Chungsen Leung, Hon. John McCallum, Costas Menegakis, Ted Opitz, Jasbir Sandhu, Devinder Shory and Rathika Sitsabaiesan.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Julie Béchard, Analyst; Sandra Elgersma, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: As individuals: Kathryn Marshall, Lawyer; Audrey Macklin, Professor and Chair in Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Long, Barrister and Solicitor, Long Mangalji LLP. Greater Vancouver Counselling and Education Society for Families: Poran Poregbal, Founder, Executive Director and Therapist. Herizon House Women's Shelter: Laila Fakhri, Crisis Intervention Counsellor. Afghan Women's Organization: Adeena Niazi, Executive Director.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Thursday, February 6, 2014, the Committee resumed its study on strengthening the protection of women in our immigration system.
 

Kathryn Marshall, by videoconference from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Audrey Macklin and Elizabeth Long by videoconference from Toronto, Ontario, made statements and answered questions.

 

At 4:30 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 4:34 p.m., the sitting resumed.

 

Poran Poregbal, Laila Fakhri and Adeena Niazi made statements and answered questions.

 

At 5:30 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Julie Lalande Prud'homme
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
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