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Initially elected as a candidate of the Reform Party of Canada , Kenney was re-elected as a Canadian Alliance candidate in , and then re-elected four times as the candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada. Following the Conservative victory in the general election , Kenney was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for the Prime Minister of Canada. Kenney held the post of Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism from October 30, , to July 15, , when he became Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism.
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On February 9, , he was named Minister of National Defence. Kenney was considered a potential party leader following the defeat of the Conservative government in October and resignation of Stephen Harper as leader. On July 6, , he announced his intention to run for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta in that party's leadership election. He served as leader until the merger was effected on July 24, , and was elected United Conservative Party leader on October 28, On April 16, , Kenney successfully led the United Conservative Party to majority government in the Alberta general election , defeating the previous government led by Rachel Notley of the New Democratic Party with 63 seats and He is the grandson of jazz musician and big band leader Mart Kenney.
He went to high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan , at the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame , a private Catholic high school, of which his father was president, in Kenney also attended St. He studied philosophy at the University of San Francisco , a Jesuit university in San Francisco , California , but failed to complete coursework.
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During his time in San Francisco, he was interviewed by CNN, for a segment exploring "religious values". In the segment, he was credited as "Jason Kenny — Anti-abortion Activist". John Clarke, who declared free speech essential to a university. Allowing pro-choice activists on campus, Kenney argued in the CNN interview, was "destroying the mission and the purpose of this university".
In the student newspaper, he suggested that if the school gave a platform to pro-choice groups in the name of free speech, it would have no basis to refuse a similar platform to pedophiles or to the Church of Satan. In , Kenney was named president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Taxpayers , a self described taxpayers advocacy group that scrutinizes governmental expenditure with a conservative bias.
Kenney was first elected to the House of Commons in , at the age of 29 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada. He served as the national co-chairman of Stockwell Day 's campaign for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance and National Co-Chair of the Canadian Alliance election campaign.
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While on the Opposition benches from —, Kenney served in a number of prominent roles in the Shadow Cabinet , including Deputy House Leader for the Official Opposition , critic for Canada—United States relations , critic for National Revenue, and critic for Finance. In January , during a government trade mission in China , Kenney visited the family of recently deceased Zhao Ziyang , the deposed reformist critical of Maoist policies and supportive of free market reforms in China.
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Zhao, the former Premier of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party , was purged for sympathizing with pro-democracy protesters before they were crushed by the military at Tiananmen Square in In August , Kenney compared Hezbollah with the Nazi Party of s Germany when two opposition MPs suggested taking it off Canada's list of terrorist organizations. In this capacity, Kenney was the Harper government's representative to ethnic communities in Canada. In this role, Kenney made frequent appearances at ethnic community events across the country, hosted by groups as diverse as Koreans, Ahmadiyya Muslims, Chinese, Jews, Assyrians, South Asians, and Poles.
In early , Kenney posted an announcement on his web site announcing that the Government of Canada recognizes the flag of the Republic of Vietnam as the symbol of the Vietnamese-Canadian community. He said "Our government recognises the flag as an important symbol of the Vietnamese-Canadian community's independence, strength, and belief in national unity, and attempts to disparage it are a deeply troubling attack on one of Canada's ethnic communities and on the principles of multiculturalism.
Their experiences mark an unfortunate period in our nation's history. We must ensure that they are never forgotten. In , Jason Kenney became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Cabinet shuffle of October 30, retaining responsibility for multiculturalism, which he had been given in In April , Kenney officially launched Asian Heritage Month to "better understand the rich diversity the Asian Canadian community brings to Canada".
Kenney, speaking in Jerusalem in December about Canadian government funding of human rights organizations , said "We have de-funded organizations, most recently, like KAIROS who are taking a leadership role in the boycott [of Israel]. We're receiving a lot of criticism for these decisions In , Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blocked any reference to gay rights in a new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship. Internal documents show an early draft of the guide contained sections noting that homosexuality was decriminalized in But Kenney, who fought same-sex marriage when it was debated in Parliament, ordered those key sections removed when his office sent its comments to the department.
For their applications to be processed, skilled worker applicants are now required to either have an offer of arranged employment, or be qualified in one of 29 eligible occupations out of occupations described in the National Occupational Classification NOC , a standardized framework for organizing information about jobs into a coherent system. A cap of 20, applications per year for the skilled workers class was also introduced.
As of July 1, , a maximum of 10, Federal Skilled Worker applications will be considered for processing in the subsequent 12 months. Within the 10, cap, a maximum of federal skilled worker applications per eligible occupation will be considered for processing each year. Kenney said his reform of the immigration point system fixed problems with the previous immigration system.
Also, he made the new system more efficient in accepting migrants who could make the best contributions to the Canadian economy. The Canadian Experience Class Program is aiming to attract more international students who qualify as a graduate in the program; and there are two specific requirements to graduate. There were cases that had waited for almost a decade to process, but the processing time has been shortened approximately a year period. While Immigration Minister, Kenney asserted that the generosity of the immigration system was not to be abused. In addition to the heartbreak and pain that came from being lied to and deceived, these people were angry.
They felt they had been used as a way to get to Canada. We are taking action because immigration to Canada should not be built upon deceit. While Minister, Kenney focused on major issues such as fraud marriage, human smugglers, unfounded refugees, and the billion-dollar bill of health and social benefits claimed from them. Also, a five-year sponsorship bar is published, which means sponsored spouses or partners are to wait five years from the day they received permanent residence status in Canada to sponsor a new spouse or partner.
Furthermore, Minister Kenney claimed that these new measures are making an easier law enforcement and stiffer penalties to prosecute human smugglers and a message to human smugglers and they will not be able to abuse Canada's generosity anymore. There has been significant criticism of the institution of a Designated Country of Origin DCO list which attributes countries as being unlikely to persecute. Therefore, refugee claimants coming from these countries included are Hungary, Mexico, and Israel will undergo a different refugee claimant process.
In , he imposed a ban on niqab face veils for those taking the oath of citizenship. Along with Rona Ambrose , Minister for the Status of Women, Kenney was one of ten cabinet ministers who decided to vote in favour of a motion to study when life begins. On July 19, , Kenney announced that the government intends to revoke the citizenship of 1, people it believes obtained their status through fraudulent means. The decision to revoke Canadian citizenship is rare, and a large-scale proposed crackdown had no precedent.
Fewer than 70 citizenships have been revoked since the Citizenship Act. An investigation into residence fraud continues to grow and almost 11, cases are being reviewed. Recently, Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC has revoked up to 3, citizens' citizenship because they have cheated or lied to become a Canadian citizen.
It is believed that about 5, people who have Canadian permanent status are outside of Canada and implicated in residence fraud. In January , Kenney made public statements critical of U.
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He said that unlike in the Vietnam era, the current asylum seekers are neither " draft dodgers " nor " resisters ", but rather are "people who volunteer to serve in the armed forces of a democratic country and simply change their mind to desert. And that's fine, that's the decision they have made, but they are not refugees. As part of Kenney's Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act , introduced in June , the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism would have the ability to deny entry to Canada based on "public police considerations.
He was quoted in The Globe and Mail saying that present immigration laws do not allow someone to be kept out if they are seeking to promote violence. Earlier, in March , the Canada Border Services Agency prevented British politician George Galloway from entering Canada, where he had planned to give a series of speeches against the war in Afghanistan.
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Galloway had openly given what he called "financial support" to Hamas , classified as a terrorist group in Canada. Galloway pursued the matter in the Canadian court system, where it was revealed that Kenney's office had emailed the CBSA on the matter. The Federal Court found that Kenney's office had used "a flawed and overreaching interpretation of the standards under Canadian law for labeling someone as engaging in terrorism or being a member of a terrorist organization.
The Globe and Mail later pointed out that while Kenney was quick to refuse Galloway entry into Canada, his department gave entry to controversial politician Geert Wilders , who has compared Islam to Fascism and campaigned to ban the Quran from the Netherlands. A new law amending the Citizenship Act came into effect on April 17, One of the changes instituted by the Government of Canada is the "first generation limitation", considered a punitive measure by some against naturalized citizens who reside abroad for lengthy periods of time.
We will strengthen the new limitation on the ability to acquire citizenship for the second generation born abroad. Thus for children to obtain Canadian citizenship if born abroad, they would have to have one parent who was born in Canada.
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Another effect of this law was to abolish automatic Citizenship by birth for the children of parents in Canada in the service of a foreign government. Children born to foreign diplomats in Canada would only become Canadian if at least one parent was either a Canadian citizen or a Permanent Resident. In , Kenney introduced Discover Canada , a new citizenship guide for prospective citizens. The Canadian Press reported that Kenney blocked information about same-sex marriage from the Citizenship and Immigration study guide for immigrants applying for citizenship, [55] although a sentence was included in a revision.
Kenney has taken steps to restore full citizenship status to the "Lost Canadians", Canadian nationals who had "fallen through the cracks". Kenney says the Lost Canadians group should not be politicizing their plight but they should be making a "solid application and a strong case". On March 29, , Kenney announced an overhaul of the Canadian refugee system. The reform package also committed to allowing the resettlement of 2, more refugees living in UN refugee camps and urban slums.
It has been broadly criticized as it "gives Ministers broad, unfettered and unprecedented powers" among other new powers. It was sponsored by Kenney. There has been significant controversy around changes to the social assistance program for refugee claimants Interim Federal Health. Afghan interpreters who served alongside Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan and who applied for Canadian visas on the basis of facing threats from insurgents were denied visas.
Kenney backed this decision. Kenney promised that Canada would resettle more refugees from — than in previous years. Loly Rico , president of the Canadian Council for Refugees , criticized Kenny for not following through on his promise. Responding to feedback in townhalls and public consultations, Kenney took steps in [66] to fight against marriage fraud. Many cases had arisen in which Canadians had been taken advantage of by would-be spouses simply to facilitate their entry into Canada. These Canadian victims' trust in their supposed husband or wife was violated for fraudulent immigration purposes.
Once status was acquired in Canada the prospective spouse would leave the Canadian spouse who had sponsored him in, revealing their marriage to have been a lie. Kenney instituted a five-year bar or prohibition on spousal sponsorship for those who had already been sponsored by a spouse into Canada.