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Opposition MPs are urging the Canadian government to stop contracting out the work of processing visa applications, saying they are concerned that one of China’s largest state-owned investment funds is among the biggest backers of a company the Canadian government currently entrusts with this task.
At committee: Prorogation, Indigenous housing and updating Canada s citizenship oath
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Canadian lawmakers vote to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger AFP 28/01/2021 AFP © Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD A poster seen in Brussels in January 2021 calls for the release of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi
Members of Canada s House of Commons on Wednesday unanimously voted to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned in his home country since 2012 and whose wife and three children live in Canada.
The motion asks Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino to use his discretionary power to grant Canadian citizenship to Badawi, in order to remedy a particular situation and unusual distress.
He was convicted in 2014 to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam. He received 50 of those beatings in January 2015, but the rest of the sessions which were to be carried out weekly were suspended after a global outcry.
Members of Canada’s House of Commons voted to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned in his home country for nine years and whose wife and three children live in Canada.
The motion, which was unanimously voted on Wednesday, asks Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino to use his “discretionary power” to grant Canadian citizenship to Badawi, “in order to remedy a particular situation and unusual distress”.
Badawi was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes and then resentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes in 2014 for blogging about free speech and “insulting Islam”.
He received 50 of those beatings in January 2015, but the rest of the sessions, which were to be carried out weekly, were suspended after a global outcry.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Jan 28, 2021 6:31am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
PROCEDURE AND HOUSE AFFAIRS members host a panel discussion with a trio of academics: Dalhousie University associate professor Lori Turnbull, Université du Québec à Montréal professor Hugo Cyr and
University of Calgary associate professor Ian Brodie, who also served as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff. (11 AM – 1 PM)
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, MPs are set to take a closer look at the auditor general’s latest report on “respect in the workplace” at the
Canada Border Services Agency and the
Correctional Service of Canada, with the respective agency heads
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