LEGISLATIVE REVIEW MINISTERIAL CONSULTATIONS

List of Participants

(in alphabetical order) Vancouver Hearings Friday and Saturday, February 27-28, 1998

  • Affiliation of Multicultural Societies Service Agencies of BC
  • Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of New Westminster
  • Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada Staff
  • Association of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language
  • BC Adult ESL Articulation Committee
  • BC Lower Mainland Consortium of School Boards for Successful Settlement
  • Canada Education Centres Network
  • Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
  • Chinese Entrepreneurs Society of Canada
  • Community Advisory Group on Immigration
  • Independent Immigration Aid Association
  • Interfaith Refugee Committee of BC
  • International Adoption Families Association
  • MOSAIC
  • National Congress of Chinese Canadians Pacific Northwest Economic Region
  • S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society)
  • Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society
  • Taiwan Entrepreneurs Investors Association of British Columbia
  • TESL Canada Federation
  • United Church of Canada
  • Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association
  • Vancouver Special Advisory Committee on Cultural Communities
  • Women Against Violence Against Women
  • Rape Crisis Centre
  • World Sikh Organization

Edmonton Hearing Sunday, March 1, 1998

  • Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies (AAISA)
  • Alberta Centre for International Education
  • Alberta Federation of Labour
  • Calgary Immigrant Aid Society
  • Community Advisory Committee, Northern Alberta
  • Edmonton Center for Education
  • Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
  • Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Winnipeg Hearing Monday, March 2, 1998

  • Canadian Polish Congress
  • Citizenship Council of Manitoba — Immigration Subsection
  • Manitoba Aerospace Human Resources Coordinating Committee
  • Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council
  • Mennonite Central Committee
  • Canada Philippine Association of Manitoba
  • Regina Open Door Society Inc.
  • Saskatoon — Refuge Coalition
  • Sikh Society of Manitoba
  • Socieacute;teacute; Franco-Manitobaine
  • Success Skills Centre
  • TEAM — Teaching English to Adults in Manitoba

Toronto Hearings Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3-4, 1998

  • Air Transport Association of Canada
  • Amnesty International
  • B’Nai Brith Canada, National Office
  • Canadian Arab Federation
  • Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture
  • Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society
  • Centre for Language Training Assessment
  • COSTI
  • Donohue & Associates
  • Dr. D.W. MacPherson (McMaster University)
  • Fort Erie Heritage Council, Casa el Norte & the Refugee Assistance Organization
  • Inter-Church Committee for Refugees
  • Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
  • Metro Toronto Police
  • National Congress of Italian Canadians
  • National Indo-Canadian Council
  • Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)
  • Portuguese Canadian National Congress
  • Regional Municipality of Peel
  • Resource Analysis Task Force of Scarborough East
  • TESL Ontario
  • Toronto City Council
  • Toronto District School Board

Montreal Hearings Friday and Saturday, March 6-7, 1998

  • Archdiocese of Montreal
  • Association Multi-Ethnique pour l’intégration des Personnes Handicapées du Québec
  • Association pour la défense des droits du personnel domestique de Montréal
  • Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l’immigration
  • Barreau du Québec
  • Bureau de la communauté chrétienne des Haïtiens de Montréal
  • Business Development Council West Island
  • Centre de Recherche-Action sur les Relations raciales (CRARR)
  • City of Montreal
  • Conseil interculturel de l’Outaouais
  • Fédération des femmes du Québec
  • Jewish Immigrant Aid Services
  • Lévesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc.
  • Ligue des droits et libertés
  • Montréal International
  • Montreal Urban Community
  • National Association of Canadians of Origins in India
  • Prof. François Crépeau (UQAM — Département des sciences juridiques)
  • PROMIS, Organisme d’aide aux réfugiés et aux immigrants
  • Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul
  • Table de concertation des organismes de Montréal au service des réfugiés

Halifax Hearings Sunday and Monday, March 8-9, 1998

  • Archdiocese of Halifax
  • Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
  • Atlantic Regional Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies (ARISA)
  • Canadian Citizenship Federation
  • Fundy Refugee Support Coalition
  • Immigrant Serving Agencies of Metro Halifax (ISAM)
  • Metro ESL Association
  • Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association (MISA)
  • Multicultural Association of Fredericton Nova Scotia
  • Federation of Labour
  • Prof. Audrey Macklin (Dalhousie Law School)
  • Prof. Constantine Passaris (University of New Brunswick)
  • Refugee Immigrant Advisory Council

Ottawa Hearing Wednesday, March 11, 1998

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Canadian Council for Refugees
  • Canadian Ethnocultural Council
  • Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials
  • Canadian Labour Congress
  • Canadian Police Association
  • CAW/TCA
  • Conseil pour l’intégration des francophones — minorités raciales
  • EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere)
  • LEGIT (Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task Force)/ ICGL [Immigration pour conjoint(e)s gais et lesbiennes]
  • National Action Committee on the Status of Women
  • NGO-Govt Joint Committee on Private Sponsorship