Citizenship and Immigration committee  The main point I will make about all of this is that if there's a microaggression.... I need to clarify, in case people don't understand this, that a “microaggression” doesn't mean it's small. All it means is that it happens in small interactions. When you talk about systemic r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have always been in favour of human beings as opposed to algorithms, but when I speak of blind experimentation, maybe that is something that is to be considered. The way I see it is this: Why not try it and see what the results are? Why not try it and then compare? If we use an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you asking whether it should be focused on employee experiences and feelings of belonging, or applications...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Both. Okay. If employees don't feel a sense of belonging and comfort, and we care about diversity but we don't care about inclusion and equity, then the retention rate of people working in those departments is going to be very low. People are going to come in and then they're go

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. I was going to say the same thing. I think that a fix would be to take some of the people who are working in the departments at lower levels and bring them up and give them positions of authority so that they can assess. What results would reassessment of th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have not evaluated that area but I would be surprised if there was not racism taking place in any department or organization in which the majority of the people are from the majority.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The reason I say that is.... There was a book released a few years ago called Points of Entry: How Canada's Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets In. It was written by my Ph.D. supervisor. I read it because I had to, because he's my supervisor. However, I found a lot of flaws in h

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —some research from white scholars and some research from racialized scholars so we can say, okay, we have a range of ideas here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do agree with that statement, but being a professor, I've been trained to always say, “maybe, perhaps, possibly”. That's why I respond in that way.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. I think everybody in this room remembers the tragedy that took place in London, Ontario, with the Afzaal family. One thing that I like to point to is that, even though that was an incident of Islamophobia, we know that the person who committed the crime was coming fro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh my god, 12 seconds.... It's great to be in this room with you guys.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I like that you laughed and made it more comfortable.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for that question. I'll try to keep it as succinct as possible. What you're speaking about is this idea of cultural competence training, which actually has received a lot of criticism over the years, because we've come to realize that no one can be competent

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning. I have provided Stephanie with some data and research, but in the interest of time, I'm only going to share my reflections with you today. I think it's important for us to ask what our preoccupation with and predisposition towards the point system of immigration