Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I wish to present the following petition.
The undersigned residents of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: that the current immigration sponsorship requirements are very high for an average person; that specifically maintaining an adequate income to support an immigrant is excessive for one person to bear; and that Canada is a multicultural country and immigrants are a great contribution to multiculturalism in Canada. Therefore, the petitioners call upon parliament to ask the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to review the existing income requirements to allow all potential sponsors to not be unduly burdened by them and request that more than one person be allowed to sponsor the same individual and share the responsibility of financial support for that immigrant.