Topic: Vic Toews
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Human-smugglers and human-traffickers are now watching Canada's response to judge whether or not they can continue to take advantage of us
Tamil immigrant ship now at Canadian base Aug 13, 2010
As you can appreciate, the role of the Canadian Forces is principally based on defense activities and, as a result, they must maintain a capacity to act in that regard when events occur in other provinces or overseas
Soldiers won't help Quebec flood clean-up May 25, 2011
We know that jumping the immigration queue is fundamentally unfair to those who follow the rules and wait their turn to come to Canada
Canada plans human smuggling crackdown Oct 21, 2010
It can basically be from a very minor sexual touching to a rape
Canada to consider change in criminal code May 12, 2010
Granted there were some heads of nations at the Olympics, but nowhere in the configuration or the numbers that are going to be here
G8, G20 to cost Canada May 26, 2010
Victor "Vic" Toews, PC QC MP ( /ˈteɪvz/; born September 10, 1952) is a Canadian politician. He has represented Provencher in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000, and currently serves in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Toews is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Toews' parents, Victor and Anna Toews, moved from Canada with their two eldest children to Paraguay in 1952, where Toews was born in Filadelfia, Paraguay. Victor's father served on a missions assignment as a teacher and minister. The family returned to Canada in 1956. He speaks German (his mother tongue), Spanish and English. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Winnipeg (1973), and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Manitoba (1976). He joined the provincial Ministry of Justice in 1976 and became a Crown attorney the following year. He was promoted to Director of Constitutional Law for Manitoba in 1987, and advised the Manitoba government on the Meech Lake Accord. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1991.
Toews became a lecturer at the University of Manitoba in 1987, and taught classes in labour law and employment law. He left the civil service in 1991 to become an associate counsel for Great-West Life Assurance, and was given a leave of absence in 1995 to enter politics.
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