I have three constituency cases right now where people's expired certificates of PR are blocking them from getting to Canada. In fact, there's one person who's an essential worker, and the employer is a hospital. She's a registered nurse. The hospital has delayed her start time from November 2 to December 7, and now to January 4, only because they cannot get the certificate of PR renewed.
I'll contact your office with these cases and hopefully they can get resolved, but hopefully not just these cases. Just honour these certificates of PR so you can then really move forward.
I'm going to move on to another area: post-grad students. International post-grad student work permits are not renewable, and many of them are expiring or have expired. I believe the minister has received a petition with 16,000 names on it. Will the minister take the unprecedented step to extend their work permits as a COVID measure?