Thank you, Madam Chair.
Minister, I witnessed remarkable callousness from you and your officials toward immigrants and refugees who are trying to come to Canada. My office has contacted your ministerial inquiries unit on multiple cases for immigrants where the correction of simple paperwork errors or a bit of compassion would actually save the lives of people from overseas trying to come into Saskatoon.
I wrote to you directly about Bawa Bhalla, a Canadian citizen, his wife Anterpreet Kaur, and their infant daughter Brahmjot, who is also Canadian. You're refusing to allow Madame Kaur into Canada on the basis that she's not expecting to leave the country. Well, that's exactly the point. She needs to come to Canada to be with her Canadian husband and her Canadian daughter. She has a legitimate path to permanent residency.
I want to know why you guys have so harshly refused Madame Kaur's application to be with her Canadian husband and daughter.