Citizenship and Immigration committee  I couldn't speak to the appropriateness of it. My only assumption would be that because it's a program that offers a chance of immigration, the standards would be set differently. I wouldn't be able to comment on the appropriateness of that. I don't know all the ins and outs of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly I think it would be beneficial to look at what those requirements are. There are some countries where you need the permission of your employer to go through with the process of going through a Canadian visa office, and certainly consideration should be taken for those s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, it's an attractive idea. I think one thing that may be looked at, though, is where the caregivers are working. If a caregiver is coming to Canada to work in northern Ontario, say, and it's not a very welcoming community to them and this isn't what they expected and they wa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That would be up to the government to decide. I think that either some sort of government body or something at arm's length--maybe a body of stakeholders of some sort--but there needs to be some government oversight, for sure. But yes, I think a white list would be a fantastic id

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't necessarily think it should be arbitrary, that the body would say “You, you, and you get to be licensed and you don't”. I think it should be a very clear list of what standards an agent or an agency needs to meet in order to be on the white list. Anybody who can practise

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If he's saying he supports his colleague, I wouldn't have any problem with that. If he's making conclusions about what any investigation might lead to, some sort of discovery, that would be inappropriate. But I think if they're simply supporting a colleague in the process, I woul

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If a centralized processing centre could be created for that--and I believe there's one for other programs, but maybe not fully effective--and if there could be some body to which all those documents could be channelled, they could be reviewed under the same standards and the sta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Was this from two days ago?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I haven't seen it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say there are similarities, but there are significant differences in terms of the net worth of the individual, in terms of how much money they're bringing with them or investing. None of that applies to a live-in caregiver. They just need to make sure they have the traini

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With regard to that point, I'm not sure which recommendation number it was the committee had in the policy paper. I can check here. I think it was proposal 23 that mentioned the three-month follow-up. If the caregivers could follow up with some authority who could remind them o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I do not believe it is. I think in terms of the work done, there need to be certain flexibilities. If a caregiver is in a home looking after a child and the child is away for an hour or the child is napping, then there's a break time, but there are families where, certainly,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My knowledge of that program is fairly limited, beyond understanding that there needs to be a certain net worth of the individual, that they need to invest a certain amount and have a certain amount of background experience, which is somewhat similar to the live-in caregiver prog

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.