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Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

Hon. Marc Miller

  • Member of Parliament
  • Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
  • Liberal
  • Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 66%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $97,404.09

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Context: House Hansard - 276 - Feb/6/24
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Feb/6/24 2:58:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think it would be useful to point out that, since 2015, Quebec has received $4.4 billion under the Canada-Quebec accord. That is not an insignificant amount of money. It is earmarked for welcoming immigrants and is put towards the services Quebec uses to welcome immigrants and help them integrate under the Canada-Quebec accord. The amount was $300 million in 2015 and it is now $700 million, regardless of immigration levels. The Bloc is being intellectually dishonest when it claims that we are not paying up. They are constantly picking fights.
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Context: House Hansard - 275 - Feb/5/24
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Feb/5/24 2:25:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is the only one who thinks that $70 million, $50 million and $100 million is just small change. That money is very important to the asylum seekers who will end up in Quebec. As the member knows full well, we have a good relationship with the Government of Quebec. We are going to act the way a responsible government should and work with them. Quebec's finance minister will speak with Canada's Minister of Finance today. Our great relationship will carry on.
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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Jan/30/24 2:41:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government is not saving money by giving Quebec $700 million a year under the Canada-Quebec accord, in addition to a surplus of over $700 million that we have never asked Quebec about. We never asked for an accounting, but obviously there will have to be a conversation about that with Quebec. We are ready to have that conversation. We are already having some good discussions. As I said, there will be good news later this week.
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Context: House Hansard - 264 - Dec/7/23
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Dec/7/23 2:27:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, only the Bloc Québécois would say that $700 million a year, plus millions in social transfers in blocks with no strings attached is nothing, but let us leave it at that.
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Context: House Hansard - 254 - Nov/23/23
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Nov/23/23 2:44:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a lesson on the Constitution from the Bloc Québécois, I will leave it at that. What I can say is that, last year, we gave $700 million to Quebec under the Canada-Quebec accord. We gave it more this year. We even gave it too much without asking for any of it back. All I am saying is let us have a reasonable discussion with our respective finance ministers. Let us sit down and lay our cards on the table and have a mature discussion.
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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Lib.)
  • Sep/29/22 2:49:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned two days ago, 91 projects are under way in communities, to a total of about $100 million. The vast majority of people who have applied to our department have been funded for the first two years of their projects. We will be with them for the complete trajectory of where they will need to do searches, which may be well over five to 10 years. It is something that we will keep doing and keep investing in as communities approach us. There is much more work to do, indeed, but clearly there is more money to come and this is only a small snapshot of the investments, particularly into mental health, that have been put into communities. Only part of my department does—
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