Citizenship and Immigration committee  When we examine the claims of individuals, it's based on their nationality. If someone is a dual national, for example, we would look at that. If someone holds a passport from a safe country, and that is the identity the person presents to the IRB for the purposes of a claim, and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, this is a very complex area of immigration processing. As a result of the proposed reforms, we hope we will be able to identify the factors the member has outlined, which we refer to as “risk factors”, in the assessment of H and C applicat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't believe this new provision within the act will push people to make refugee claims as opposed to H and C requests for permanent residence. Effectively, what we're looking to do with the proposed changes is to consolidate the assessment of risk and comparable factors, alon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I understand you correctly, you are asking what the criteria are for a claim for permanent residency on humanitarian or compassionate grounds.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I think this is an excellent question, and I'm happy to advise that as part of the program development process, the participating departments, with the supervision of the Treasury Board, will be engaging in a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of the proposed chan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, Mr. Chair, I think this is a great question, because with royal assent, there will need to be a period of implementation for CIC and IRB, CBSA, and other agencies, to prepare for the coming into force of the legislative changes and the associated regulations that will need

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the question should probably be addressed more appropriately to Mr. Goodman when he appears later this week. However, I will say that we have every confidence that the public servant decision-makers who will be engaged at the refugee determination division at the IRB wi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. I think the minister was correct in saying that the reforms that are being proposed here form part of a very balanced package that looks to ensure that, as Mr. Bevilacqua has said, we don't create new bottlenecks in the system, as has been

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, thank you, Mr. Chair. We're prepared to take questions from the committee.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. Indeed, work has proceeded with the provinces and territories on a foreign credential recognition portal, work that is shared between CIC and HRSDC as well as the provinces and territories. On the website, the “Going to Canada” portal has a subset and also links to

Public Accounts committee  With regard to our visioning the future exercise, we have undertaken to examine the program as a whole with the provinces and territories. The idea is to determine how we can make the process work better between the permanent program and the temporary program, in this instance th

Public Accounts committee  As HRSDC mentioned in their remarks earlier, when an employer approaches them to determine whether or not they can hire a foreign worker, the employer has to lay out very clearly the requirements of the job. Quite often, official language ability is one of the requirements, but i

Public Accounts committee  We have to remember that immigration is an area of shared jurisdiction and occupational health and safety is an area of provincial jurisdiction. So one of the key issues that we want to strengthen through our new regulatory package is to be able to work better with the provinces.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I'll answer. We have agreements with the provinces and territories for the exchange of information between them and CIC. Every three months, we exchange data with the provinces and territories. With regard to the distribution of overall stati