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Speaking notes for Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship at the Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Immigration Summit

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Thank you for that kind and brief introduction. I’d like to begin by thanking all of you here for being here today, and thanking the Conference Board of Canada for helping guide national discussions on immigration with your insightful research. I’d also like to acknowledge the presence of my provincial colleagues from Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Thank you very much for attending.


Speaking notes for Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship at a Luncheon at the Canadian Club of Toronto

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Thank you for that kind introduction. I want to start by talking about a young man who is on a journey to Canada. He is filled with conflicting emotions. One he’s thinking about the fear that engulfs him as he thinks about this new country and this new land and wondering whether people there will accept him, what are the norms there and the language and so on.


Speaking notes for Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship at a Press Conference on Helping Yazidi Women & Children, and other survivors of Daesh

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Thank you very much. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today to discuss our government's efforts to resettle the Yazidi women and girls and other survivors of Daesh in Canada. I'm joined by my Parliamentary Secretary, Serge Cormier, and Dawn Edlund, the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for Operations at IRCC, as well as David Manicom, the Department's Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategic and Program Policy at IRCC, and also here is Sean Boyd from Global Affairs Canada.


Speaking notes for John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship at a Citizenship Ceremony at the Supreme Court of Canada marking the 70th anniversary of Canada's first citizenship ceremony

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Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen and especially our 26 new Canadians, good afternoon. It's a real pleasure for me to be here with you today. Let me begin by acknowledging that we are on the traditional territory of the Algonquin people and as you know indigenous people have played a fundamental role in our country's history, in the present and in the future.


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