Harold Albrecht at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.

March 27th, 2007 / 4:35 p.m.

Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Harrison, for being here today.

I want to follow up a bit with the questions relating to the IRB. I understand that in your report you made nine recommendations to the Minister of Immigration, and it's my understanding that the minister has made a statement that those recommendations are accepted.

I want to follow up on the fact that 28% of the applicants who wrote the written test failed, and yet these people were recommended to the advisory panel and then to the minister for consideration. Would this not put an undue workload on the advisory panel in terms of the eventual appointments?

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