Jason Kenney: Canada

Canada Dept: Jason Kenney, the minister, said the bill makes good on his government s election promise to crack down on procedural delays that have allowed deportees to extend their stay in Canada for years. He argued the bill has massive support among new Canadians who have no tolerance for those who come to Canada to abuse our generosity and break our laws, according to Montreal Gazette. In principle, when a serious foreign criminal is done his sentence, he should go directly from the prison to the airport and never be released on Canadian streets, he said and oTTAWA A controversial bill aimed at speeding up the deportation process for foreign criminals cleared the House of Commons Wednesday and is well on its way to becoming law despite criticism that it s unfair and gives the minister of citizenship and immigration too much power. At the end of the day, we ve produced a long list of serious convicted foreign criminals who have gone on to reoffend, to commit new crimes and create new victims in Canada, which I think is intolerable, Kenney said Wednesday, just before MPs voted 149-130 in favour of the bill which passed without support from the NDP or Liberals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.