Roma Community Centre: Fiction

Gina Csany-Robah Dept: Gina Csany-Robah, the executive director of the Roma Community Centre in Toronto -- the only one of its kind in Canada -- gave an impassioned critique of proposed Conservative changes to the refugee system, according to CTV. "The problem is that the fiction here influences peoples' thought process, even at schools ... and when they hear the discourse that's often in our media, it just compiles the problem." OTTAWA An advocate for Roma refugee claimants says "Gypsy fiction" is fanning the same kind of discrimination in Canada that her ancestors have faced for centuries in Europe. "It is very important to be able to depict what is the Gypsy fiction from the Roma reality," Csany-Robah told a parliamentary committee while denouncing Conservative efforts to address "bogus" refugee claims. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.