Evidence of meeting #28 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was goods.
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Director, Migration Control and Horizontal Policy, Admissibility Branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
You mean use his discretionary authority?
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Director, Migration Control and Horizontal Policy, Admissibility Branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Just to be clear, we have many authorities under the act to provide discretion to allow people in. We really have only one discretionary authority to keep people out. The temporary resident permit would be an example of how, despite being inadmissible, an individual would be permitted to enter Canada. As I mentioned before, the decision-making on temporary resident permits is by an officer. As Lesley mentioned, when there's a serious inadmissibility involved, that decision is made by a very senior official.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bob Nault
Colleagues, that wraps up our hour of discussion with our witnesses.
I want to thank both the Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Just keep in mind that we might call you back as we work our way through this. One of the issues we're grappling with is that under the FACFOA, there's a lot of discussion about the individuals who are put on the list. One of the questions that pop up is whether those decisions are made in multilateral fora, in the sense that they all seem to resonate around some of our partners. There are no individuals on the list, at least none that we're aware of, who are on the list simply because Canada has put them on it; they exist on other countries' lists as well. There is a process of communication and discussion, and we'd like to follow that up at some point with you. We did not have the time to do that today. We are going to be going, at some point, clause by clause through the legislation, and before we do that, we will certainly either be writing to you or be requesting that you come back to the committee again.
On behalf of the committee, thank you very much for spending some time with us this afternoon, and we look forward to speaking to you again.
Colleagues, we'll take a five-minute break, and then we'll go into in camera discussions on our study of countries of focus.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
