[van-announce] March 23 immigration meeting/Immigration & Refugee Protection Act...

[Sid Chow Tan]

Yo All and especially Paco...

"Telegdi, Andrew - M.P." <Telegdi.A at parl.gc.ca> wrote:
Subject: IMPORTANT CITIZENSHIP MEETING IN VANCOUVER, Tuesday, May 23, 7pm
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 13:34:22 -0400
From: "Telegdi, Andrew - M.P." <Telegdi.A at parl.gc.ca>
To: suppressed


Mr. Telegdi would like to invite you and members of your community to a very 
important meeting on Citizenship and Immigration.

Tuesday, May 23 at 7pm 
SUCCESS Building, CHOI HALL 
28 West Pender Street, 
Vancouver, B.C. 
(Adjacent to Chinatown Gate that cross over the street, can't miss it.) 

Mr. Telegdi, Liberal vice chair and Mdm. Meili Faille the BQ vice chair of the 
Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration will be the speakers at this 
meeting along with Don Chapman of Lost Canadians. 
The issue is that the Minister said that the Conservative Government will not 
honour their election pledge to change the Citizenship Act as there is no 
concensus across the country. With the exception of the B'nai Brith and the 
Jewish Congress all the other groups and individuals agreed. We need people to 
attend this very important meeting and we need to know how many people are 
coming.

Please confirm your attendance and feel free to distribute this invite to other 
interested parties. 

Mr. Shannon Earle 
Legislative Assistant 
Office of Hon. Andrew Telegdi, P.C., M.P. 
Kitchener-Waterloo 
Tel: 996.5928 
Fax: 992.6251 

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NARCC and Coalition granted Intervenor Status at Supreme Court of Canada

This is to advise that National Anti-Racism Council of Canada, (NARCC),
Canadian Council for Refugees, (CCR), African Canadian Legal Clinic, (ACLC),
and The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, (ICMLG) in coalition
were granted intervenor status in the following cases to be heard by the
Supreme Court of Canada: Adil Charkoui, Hassan Almrei, Mohamed Harkat. 
Counsel acting on behalf of the intervenors are: Sharryn J. Aiken, Professor,
Faculty of Law, Queen's University and Marie Chen from the ACLC. 

Also granted status in all 3 cases: Amnesty International, Criminal Lawyers
Association, Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations-CAIR-CAN, Canadian
Bar Association, Federation of Law Societies of Canada, University of Toronto
and Human Rights Watch.

The cases challenge the constitutionality of particular sections of the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“IRPA”), i.e. the indefinite detention
of non-permanent residents such as conventional refugees as well as permanent
residents.

In the Notice of Motion it was stated that

---the issues raised in the appeal were of fundamental importance to immigrants,
refugees and racialized groups. And, the intervenors have a collective
interest in the protection of the rights and interests of immigrant, refugee
and racialized communities.  

---ensuring that the Charter and human rights of  refugees, immigrants and
racialized people are protected in the application and operation of laws and
legal processes generally, and specifically in the context of security and
detention. In particular, they have an interest in the creation of equitable
immigration laws and the fair and non-discriminatory administration of those
laws.  They have an interest in ensuring that immigration laws and procedures
do not result in, facilitate or perpetuate the targeting of racialized
immigrant communities through the operation of racial stereotypes or
prejudice, which in this appeal involves the perception and construction of
certain identifiable groups as security threats.

---ensuring the full and equal protection and benefit of fundamental due
process rights of refugees and non-citizens in the immigration process, and in
ensuring that refugees non-permanent residents and non-citizens not subjected
to long term detention that contravenes the constitution.  

The Applicants have an interest in an interpretation of sections 7, 12 and 1
of the Charter in light of equality values and relevant international human
rights norms, which will protect the fundamental rights of the communities
they represent. 

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    By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, 
    Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; 
    It yearns me not if men my garments wear; 
    Such outward things dwell not in my desires. 
    But if it be a sin to covet honour, 
    I am the most offending soul alive. 

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