REPRESENTATION
Since 2013, The Immigrant Voice (TIV) has been representing its members in order to inform government authorities of the consequences resulting from the denial of rights of foreign-trained workers with respect to certain professional orders in Quebec.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Virtual meetings and exchanges with Mrs. Maryse Gaudreault (current MP for the Liberal Party of Quebec) - Meetings and exchanges between 2013 and 2019
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Meeting and virtual exchanges with the caucus of members of the Coalition Avenir Québec de l'Outaouais, including Mr. Mathieu Lacombe, Minister of Families and Head of the Outaouais region - Meetings and discussions in February and June 2020
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Virtual exchanges with the cabinet Madame Kathleen Weil, former Minister of Immigration of Quebec - Exchanges between 2014 and 2017
MIDI response to TCRI letter of support
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Meetings with Ms. Nicole Turmel (former Liberal NPD MP for Hull-Aylmer) - Meetings and discussions between 2013 and 2015
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Meeting with Mr. Greg Fergus (Liberal MP for Hull-Aylmer) - Meetings and discussions between 2015 and July 2020.
The Immigrant Voice's (TIV) representation activities also include accompanying our members in court cases. For example, TIV supports the referral to the Superior Court, Province of Quebec, District of Saint-François, initiated by a foreign-educated doctor who was a victim of racism and systemic discrimination by the University of Sherbrooke.
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It should be noted that the advocacy work of the Immigrant Voice (TIV) with other stakeholders is also taken into consideration. These include meetings with elected officials to educate them on the systemic difficulties faced by workers with foreign credentials in their attempt to integrate certain professional orders in Quebec.
Finally, the representation activities carried out by TIV concern its virtual meetings and exchanges, over time, with representatives of the public or para-public administrations involved in its files. This is the example of the Secretariat for Autonomous Community Action and Social Initiatives.
CONTEXTUAL SETTING
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The Plaintiff submits, for the reasons listed below, that he was discriminated against on the basis of his ethnic origin in the context of an integration internship for new residents who graduated outside Canada and the United States ("IMGs") offered by the Defendant (Université de Sherbrooke), in contravention of section 10 of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
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More specifically, the conduct of the Defendant (the University of Sherbrooke), resulted in the revocation of the Plaintiff's registration certificate by the Collège des médecins du Québec.
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It is moreover only from this revocation that the Claimant realizes the impact of the discrimination to which he was subjected and the extent of that discrimination.