Salma Zahid at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On March 6th, 2017. See this statement in context.

March 6th, 2017 / 3:50 p.m.

Liberal

Salma Zahid Liberal Scarborough Centre, ON

Thank you, Chair.

Thanks to all the witnesses. Thanks for your views on this.

My first question is for CBSA. Luc Portelance, former head of the CBSA, wrote a memo to former public safety minister Steven Blaney in 2014, in which he said, “Immigration applicants are 'often hesitant' to report consultants, as they were either complicit in the misrepresentations or they remain convinced that their consultant can help them gain status in Canada.”

Is this still the case, and has anything been done to address this since the concern was raised to the then minister about three years ago?

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