E/CN.4/2001/83/Add.1 page 5 British Columbia (Kalayaan Centre), Filipino Migrants’ Group, Vancouver Refugee Network, Rainbow Refugee Committee, Mennonite Central Committee Refugee Office, Store Front Orientation Services, Coalition against Trafficking in Women - Canada, FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, Canadian Human Rights Foundation, and Amnesty International, and by a number of lawyers representing refugee claimants in this region. The Special Rapporteur also had the opportunity to talk to various migrants. She visited the Burnaby correctional centre for women, where she spoke to 14 women of Chinese origin, of whom 10 had been among a group of Chinese nationals who had reached the coast of British Columbia in different boats in 1999 and 4 had arrived at Vancouver airport. The Special Rapporteur interviewed three of them separately, and they sent her a written account of their situation. 13. Before leaving Vancouver, the Special Rapporteur had another meeting with representatives of various NGOs, lawyers representing refugee claimants and individual migrants, who had been invited to meet her by these organizations. Among the persons interviewed by the Special Rapporteur were a number of Philippine female domestic workers and two Chinese nationals, one male and the other female. The Special Rapporteur interviewed the Chinese woman in private; she had arrived in Canada in one of the previously mentioned boats and told the Special Rapporteur of her personal experience during the whole process of leaving China, arriving in Canada, detention in the Prince George penitentiary and her subsequent release. 14. On 26 September, the Special Rapporteur travelled to Montreal, where she was received by Ms. Madeleine Gagné, Associate Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration within the government of Quebec. She also interviewed several heads and other members of the CIC regional office. 15. In Montreal, the Special Rapporteur interviewed, inter alia, representatives of the following NGOs: Table de Concertation, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Filipino Workers’ Support Group, Filipino Parents’ Support Group, Filipino Women’s Organization Quebec (PINAY), Association des aides familiales du Québec, Carrefour d’aide aux nouveaux arrivants, Comité québécois pour la reconnaissance des droits des travailleurs haïtiens en République dominicaine (INC) and Action Refugees Montreal. The Special Rapporteur visited the Laval detention centre and interviewed a Costa Rican, a Haitian and a Pakistani, who described their personal situation and the reasons which had led them to that situation. 16. On 28 September, the Special Rapporteur travelled to Ottawa, where she had a meeting with Ms. Elinor Caplan, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and with other members of the CIC for a final exchange of views before her departure. On 29 September, in Ottawa, the Special Rapporteur attended a meeting presided over by Ms. Joan Atkinson, Associate Deputy Minister, and also attended by representatives of all the governmental departments responsible for migrant-related questions in Canada from the CIC, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Immigration and Refugee Board. At this meeting the Special Rapporteur expressed her thanks for the opportunities she had been given to be able to carry out her mission and to visit all the detention centres in which she had been interested.