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18 Refuge 1 (1999-2000)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr18 and id is 1 raw text is: LANAUA'b PtKIULIAL UN R EFUJ( ;rvp'J Vol.18 No.1 February 1999 NOT Just NUMBERS AND NEw DIRECTIONS: IMPUCATIONS FOR CANADIAN REFUGEE POuCY Introduction Michael Lanphier Formal governmental concerns over Canadian immigration and refugee policy and legislation span more than two years of intensive inquiries and re- ports. This issue of Refuge highlights issues arising from the two reports: Not Just Numbers: A Canadian Frameworkfor Future Immigration, published in Janu- ary,1998; and its successor, Building on a Strong Foundation for the 21st Century: New Directionsfor Immigration and Refu- gee Policy and Legislation, which ap- peared oneyearlater,inJanuary, 1999.1 These reports followed a year-long in- vestigation, inaugurated in November, 1996, of a special Legislative Review AdvisoryGroup tothe Minister of Immi- gration. This Group was charged with reviewing the whole of Canadian legis- lation on immigration and protection of refugees. As it traversed the country for an initial assessment, the Advisory Group invited some todeliver oralpres- entations and other interested parties to make written submissions, all of which would be taken into account and di- gested into its voluminous 172-recom- mendation report, Not Just Numbers. The appearance of that much- awaited report aroused a groundswell of reaction in early 1998. The outpour- ing of concern required the Minister of Immigration, Madame Lucienne Robillard, to extend her initially planned highlighting tour to a veritable second set of inquiries. Groups and in- terested parties who had been passed over on the first round insisted on a hearing while engaging the local and national print and electronic media to attend not onlyto the government's pro- posedlegisl~tive agendabutto counter- representations on nearly every topic raised in the initial report. These vociferous representations have resulted in substantive modifica- tions. They attempted to clarify initial aims of the Advisory Group, e.g., to © Michael Lanphier, 1999. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited. CONTENTS Introduction Michael Lanphier ........................................................................................... 1 New Directions-a Ministerial Review in Review Michael Lanphier ...................... 4 New Directions for Refugee Determination and Protection in Canada Sharryn A iken ............................................................................................................... .. 12 Legislative Review, New Directions and Refugee Resettlement M ichael Casasola ............................................................................................................ 18 Legislative Review and the Voice of Refugees Shawn Bock and Janice Sanford....... 24 Globalization, Immigration, and the Gender Implications of Not Just Numbers in Canada Jennifer Hyndman ..................................................... 26 Middle East and Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada and Finland: Case Studies in Mature and in Incipient Multiculturalism Kathleen Valtonen ................ 32

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