Mr. Speaker, on April 14 the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration stated: "As vacancies arise, new citizenship court judges will not be appointed". On April 26 the Prime Minister stated: "We are working at substantially reducing the deficit". He referred to the millions of dollars being saved by the citizenship court judge decision.
As a result of the attrition in these appointments the estimated potential savings for this year alone should be in the range of $300,000. However, all attempts to have the estimates in this one department reduced at all to reflect these savings to the Canadian taxpayer have been stonewalled by the Prime Minister's own caucus.
Similar to this government's first budget brought down in February, we continue to hear promises from this Prime Minister but see no action.