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Public Safety committee  If one were to follow the IRB historical trends—which we can talk about more next Tuesday—for the Haitian population grosso modoit is around 50% acceptance/rejection rate, but it varies year by year. Sometimes it's higher, sometimes it's lower.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If one were to follow the IRB historical trends—which we can talk about more next Tuesday—for the Haitian population grosso modoit is around 50% acceptance/rejection rate, but it varies year by year. Sometimes it's higher, sometimes it's lower.

September 28th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Chair, to partly respond to that, we can look at a model that exists already in Australia. For example, I think a great starting point is to look at how it has approached it such that the body seems to have more of an ability to influence how that sector behaves and what the regu

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think at this point in time, Chair, there is a model that exists, which is enshrined in legislation and regulation. We do feel that there is more movement and progress that can be made in the current model. That's what exists today.

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is where we're operating. The ICCRC exists under the not-for-profits. Any changes, as Mr. Cashaback noted—

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The specific improvements points could be, for example—and I had conversations with them on this two weeks ago—having direct accountability, addressing whether there are options for more robust accounting from the organization out to the public, out to their members. We feel that

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, in the current legislative framework, we are 100% committed to making the organization the best it can be, and we'll continue to do that.

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What additional measures could be taken? I think there's a host of additional measures. It's not one single measure that will make the best impact. It's going to be a very broad and holistic approach. That's why we keep talking about whether the anti-fraud awareness campaigns goi

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Graduated licensing could be adopted, and in fact it exists today in terms of student advisers at universities.

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think an analysis can certainly include that.

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Any complaints that come in to the department go into the operations area, and we look at that actually in several parts of our department, including those in our integrity and risk area, who do what's called the level 1 investigation. They're also the group who decides if a comp

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Currently, the department, IRCC, has worked with overseas missions and overseas governments, for example—we just had conversations in the Latin American region—trying to push out an understanding of any pockets of activities by ghost consultants that we or others have picked up,

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have a definitive answer. I think you would need to ask them. We are not aware of any other government department that has contracted with the ICCRC for their services. I leave it to ICCRC to answer that.

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two parts to this. One is that we agree that if something is not working, you work to make it better. If that is looking at wholesale policy advice to the government of the day around different models—and I think those are key words—we are and always have been committed

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In keeping with the spirit of my first response, Mr. Chair, any analysis that would be undertaken, and we are willing to do that—

May 29th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael MacDonald