Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Oct. 20th, 2011

Evidence of meeting #4 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was backlog.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Immigration Application Backlogs in Light of the Action Plan for Faster Immigration

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Les Linklater Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Program Policy, Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Richard Kurland Policy Analyst and Attorney, As an Individual

James Bissett As an Individual

1:25 p.m.

Conservative

Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON

But in your opinion, based on current resources and given the fact that we want to make sure that immigrants to Canada succeed, that they're not just coming to Canada and being swept under the rug because we can't really support them, we have to make sure that levels are kept to that level.

1:30 p.m.

Policy Analyst and Attorney, As an Individual

Richard Kurland

Yes.

1:30 p.m.

Conservative

Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON

So increasing it, based on current resources, is not going to be the answer.

1:30 p.m.

Policy Analyst and Attorney, As an Individual

Richard Kurland

Increasing it based on current resources, or even on greater resources, is not the answer.

1:30 p.m.

Conservative

Roxanne James Conservative Scarborough Centre, ON

Okay. Thank you very much.

October 20th, 2011 / 1:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative David Tilson

We're out of time.

You've given us some great food for thought. I'm sure I saw the members' ears perk up. You've done this before. We appreciate your ideas; we may even change our direction because of your comments. So I thank you very much for your time and for coming.

We will conclude the meeting.

We're going to have a subcommittee meeting, so those subcommittee members will have to stay for a few moments.

The meeting is adjourned.