I'm troubled by this, because one would think that the government should meet its service standards. If they do not meet the service standards, then the applicant should be reimbursed part of the fee. This is to say that no, they don't need to be reimbursed, and therefore they should be exempt from the requirement of having to reimburse. That troubles me, and this goes retroactively back to 2017. I just want to put that on the record here.
The second area I have questions about is with respect to the express entry categories. The bill does not stipulate what categories these are or what sorts of job categories we are talking about. It just gives broad authority to the minister to make that determination. The bill does not provide for parliamentary oversight as to what these groups will be, and there's no process as to whether or not these groups will be fair. How will they be fairly chosen and how will they be selected?
Why didn't the officials put in a requirement so that the groups that the government is thinking about would have to make that list? Exactly who are we thinking about with this provision?