Committee: Committee on Migrantes Workers (CMW)

Topic: Protection of the human rights of migrant workers and their families
Country: Canada
Delegate: Rodrigo Romualdo Lopez
The creation of boundaries (small pause) between citizens and immigrants opportunities.
sounds like trowing the future of the world in the sieve (pause)
Good morning honorable chair and fellow delegates.
On behalf of the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, and the people from this great country, it
is an honor for this delegation to be here, in order to debate possible solutions and initiatives so that ,
preserve immigrants rights and opportunities.
As it is well known, since the Armed Conflict in 1940s (pause) Canada has been viewed as a
global leader with respect to refugee protection and migration security (pause), besides Canada is
also known as a country with a broad immigration policy which is reflected in Canada's ethnic diversity.
As a matter of fact, Central, and North America is well known as the principal region of origin,
transit, destination an return of migrants in the world, nevertheless, while migration has significantly
contributed to the countries development, (pause) everyday many migrants suffer abuse,
discrimination, violence, exploitation, crime and even severe human rights violations.
Canadian government strongly believes that regardless of the status in a country, both regular
and irregular migrants have human rights, including the right to freedom from slavery and servitude,
freedom from arbitrary detention, freedom from exploitation and forced labour (pause) the right to
freedom of assembly, the right to education for their children, equal access to courts and rights at
work.
According to this, and with the belief of creating strategies in order to search for peace and
prosperity, the delegation of Canada re-introduce UN resolutions from the past (pause) so all nation s
get the right and opportunity of discussing, with the only goal of looking for a viable solution.
1. Strengthening governments migration management capacities (pause), so that governments
are able to respond effectively in emergency and crisis scenarios, also by improving their
migration policies and programs in a way that enhancing protection for the most vulnerable
immigrants, (pause) and the security of the country.
2. Fight against xenophobia and discrimination (pause) by increasing the public knowledge about
migration and strengthen protection so that the migrants workers vulnerabilities get reduced.
3. Finally (pause) , promote and support the creation of jobs for this sector, helping them in the
paperwork for the temporary working permission and maybe so the qualities of migrant
workers help to the economy of the country
This delegation strongly believes (pause) it is necessary to make a specific agreement between
the countries. To complete the work, Canada is convinced that for this (pause), it is important that all
nations seek to develop strategies that will improve the migrants safety worldwide.
Thank You.