Migration Conversations

From Refugee to Cabinet Member


Listen Later

Meet the Honourable Ahmed Hussen. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, co-founded Regent Park Community Council, was national president of the Canadian Somali Congress, and practised criminal, immigration and human rights law. Elected in 2015, Minister Hussen served as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and now is Minister of Families, Children and Social Development. This is a pre-recorded event hosted by the University of Ottawa Public Law Centre. Professor Vanessa MacDonnell and I trace his remarkable journey from refugee to law school, to the Federal Cabinet.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Migration ConversationsBy Jamie Liew


More shows like Migration Conversations

View all
This American Life by This American Life

This American Life

90,922 Listeners

99% Invisible by Roman Mars

99% Invisible

26,239 Listeners

Ideas by CBC

Ideas

374 Listeners

Borderlines by Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Nachoff

Borderlines

6 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

112,856 Listeners

If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

If Books Could Kill

9,399 Listeners

The Daily News by Nora Loreto

The Daily News

4 Listeners