Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly that would also help. That's part of the reason why applications from people from China are dropping. They're waiting six to ten years. If you want to—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right, but I'll just give you one example. Clients that I have from China, if they come in as independent immigrants, tend to wait anywhere between three and five years. I have a similar client with accreditation and all that, but instead of coming directly from China, he lived i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly we should do that as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A lot of them are afraid of getting into trouble. By definition, if you're undocumented, you want to stay away from the authorities and give them as little opportunity as possible to come look for you. At the same time, it's the perception. Every time we talk about illegals, peo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the RAD, certainly I agree that putting in the RAD alone is not going to solve the problem. If you have the RAD and then you have people who are sitting on the RAD who know nothing about anything, you will still end up with—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but at least we will try to strive toward building a system that is much fairer than what we have now. I would agree that there will always be cases that cry out for some kind of correction. At the same time, though, in terms of the queue issue, the queue is an interesting

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The list could on, I guess. Honestly, the list could go on. To start with, I think you could look at the appointments system. This is the moment to do it. You have a lot of former members not being renewed for appointment. Please, please make sure that you get the right people i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, I think I got the 20,000 to 200,000 figures from one of the reports done by CIC several years ago, so I'm not sure how accurate they are. I guess they looked at the number of removal orders being issued, and tried to calculate how many of those were actually executed. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that speaks to the humanitarian and compassionate application. There are many problems with it. One issue is around how they define who is facing excessive hardship. They often define it in terms of the risk to personal life. So if someone has lost a refugee claim, odds are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak for KAIROS, but certainly the figures suggest that first the acceptance rates of refugees is certainly on the decline. It's interesting that it really depends on which cities you are in. If you're from Vancouver and you're from certain countries, your acceptance rat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right now the system is that if you're in detention, you can seek review--at 48 hours, then seven days, and then every 30 days. The problem I have seen with certain claimants or refugees is that they come from countries where.... Well, a lot of the reason you're detained is that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With respect to the live-in caregivers, in fact that's part of the thing. While they're in Canada, they apply. But as Cecilia said, there are many problems within that program. This makes the dream of becoming an immigrant almost impossible because of all these other requirements

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll try to tie it back to the question that was posed earlier. The question was whether granting status to people without status would be an attack on the integrity of the system. I would say the integrity of the system is being attacked by the system itself at this very moment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. RAD is only one component, but the fact that our determination system is flawed results in many people who should have been granted refugee status, who were in fact conventional refugees being denied that status by the system right now, and they cannot return to their

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll also try to respond to that. The last time I came to Ottawa, I was taking a taxi and the driver was talking about post-modern feminism, blah, blah, blah. And he was driving a taxi, right? So we have this contradiction. We have the highest-skilled immigrants coming to Canad