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APPENDIX C: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Paul Armstrong, Director General Centralized Network

2016/10/04

30

David Cashaback, Acting Director General Immigration Branch

   

Hon. John McCallum, P.C., M.P., Minister of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship

   

Robert Orr, Assistant Deputy Minister Operations

   

Arab Community Centre of Toronto

Zena Al Hamdan, Programs Manager

2016/10/06

31

Huda Bukhari, Executive Director

   

As individuals

Usha George, Interim Vice-President Research and Innovation, Ryerson University

   

Madine VanderPlaat, Professor Saint Mary's University

   

Canadian Alliance of Chinese Associations

Zaixin Ma, Advisor

   

Dianqi Wang, Executive Director

   

Centre for Newcomers

Anila Lee Yuen, Chief Executive Officer

   

Centre for Newcomers

Admasu Tachble, Director Settlement and Career Development

   

As individuals

Jamie Liew, Immigration Lawyer and Law Professor Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa

2016/10/20

33

Lobat Sadrehashemi, Lawyer

   

Patricia Wells, Barrister and Solicitor

   

Parkdale Community Legal Services

Toni Schweitzer, Staff Lawyer

   

Working Women Community Centre

Anabela Nunes, Settlement Counsellor

   

As an individual

Gishelle Albert

2016/10/25

34

As an individual

Jeffrey Reitz, Professor R.F. Harney Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto

 

 

Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood and Community Health Centre

Erika Garcia, Settlement Worker

   

New Brunswick Multicultural Council

Alex LeBlanc, Executive Director

   

Newcomer Centre of Peel

Effat Ghassemi, Executive Director

   

As individuals

Chantal Desloges, Lawyer Desloges Law Group

2016/10/27

35

Sergio Karas, Barrister and Solicitor Karas Immigration Law Professional Corporation

   

Arthur Sweetman, Professor

   

Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants

Vilma Filici, Representative

   

Deepak Kohli, Vice-President

   

Canadian Bar Association

Vance P. E. Langford, Chair Immigration Law Section

   

Tamra Thomson, Director Legislation and Law Reform

   

Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic

Avvy Go, Clinic Director

   

Vincent Wong, Staff Lawyer

   

As individuals

Rupaleem Bhuyan, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

2016/11/01

36

Ma Lean Andrea Gerente,

   

Amit Harohalli

   

Richard Kurland, Lawyer and Policy Analyst

   

East Toronto Community Legal Services Inc.

Sheila Monteiro, Lawyer

   

As individuals

James Bissett, Former Ambassador, Former Executive Director, Canadian Immigration Service

2016/11/03

37

Puneet Uppal, Electrical and Control Systems Engineer

   

Dalhousie University

Michael Ungar, Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition

   

Ethno-Cultural Council of Calgary

Marichu Antonio, Executive Director

   

Bronwyn Bragg, Former Research and Policy Manager

   

Multicultural Association of Fredericton

Lisa Bamford De Gante, Executive Director

   

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Sharon Chomyn, Area Director North Europe and the Gulf

2016/11/15

38

Shannon Fraser, Area Director South Asia

   

Mark Giralt, Area Director United States and Caribbean

   

Alexandra Hiles, Area Director Sub-Saharan Africa

   

Olivier Jacques, Area Director Latin America

   

Elizabeth Snow, Area Director North Asia

   

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Paul Armstrong, Director General Centralized Network

2016/11/24

41

David Cashaback, Director Social Immigration Policy and Programs

   

Robert Orr, Assistant Deputy Minister Operations