Immigrant Women and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander: Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said Wednesday the new legislation will also strengthen laws to protect immigrant women from cultural, gender-based violence, according to CTV. Alexander said the laws are aimed at deterring barbaric cultural practices on Canadian soil that are incompatible with the countrys values and The Conservative government has announced new legislation aimed at eliminating polygamous and forced marriages from Canadas immigration stream. Polygamists are not welcome in this country," he said. "If and when we find them in our immigration stream, they will be removed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.