Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Brouwer, I would ask you to maybe elaborate on issues that have come up again and again in my office about unfair visa denials. Residents who invite their family member for a reunion, a wedding, a funeral even, have been denied based on arbitrary criteria and are not given a clear explanation for the rejection.
Rather than fixing these flaws and making our visa system more fair for my constituents or our constituents across the country, what I'm seeing in this bill, and what I'm learning from reading the bill more and more, is that this bill actually furthers the discretionary powers of the minister to deny temporary residency based on vague and arbitrary “public policy considerations”.