Citizenship and Immigration committee  Fine, thanks.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's very interesting to talk about hypotheticals. It's interesting that I don't see—and probably a number of other people who have presented haven't seen—those hypotheticals you're describing in Bill C-50. Second, the data that's out there actually shows that successful econom

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I add one thing on that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is important to pick up on what you're saying about the international reputation, the fairness in the use of humanitarian and compassionate grounds, and the notion that this process is going to streamline. First, with respect to the suggestion that folks in the economic class

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hassan has answered it very clearly. There's no way it's going to lessen it. Even the government's Canadian experience class initiative, by the technicians' own admission, will bring in no more than 8,000 to 10,000, with a maximum of 20,000 by 2015. The program that is targeting

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I find it interesting that the same department that runs the temporary guest worker program also has a strategic unit that does long-range 10-year forecasting on the Canadian labour market. In October of last year they put out a report called “ A 10-Year Outlook for the Canadian

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Going quickly to the point of your question, there's no question our points system needs a re-examination, particularly when your numbers so clearly expose something going on that actually has a bit of rank to it. The employer demand is for low-skilled or lower-skilled, likely le

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. There's no question that this is not going to deal with the 925,000 in the backlog. We heard at the technical briefing and also from the senior CIC staff that they hope that of the 925,000, Mohamed and Fatima, let's say, will realize that it might be in their interest if t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Carrier, as to where that comes from, I attended a technical briefing offered by senior members of Immigration Canada on April 18, in an effort to better understand how the mechanics of this program would operate. As Hassan was pointing out, the minister is going to have the

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Yes, I was noticing that this morning as well—the labour market training architecture references in chapter 5 of the budget. Very quickly, it sounds like an interesting idea, but it raises questions about whether this is more of a patchwork of different regional or

Human Resources committee  The Canadian Labour Congress has annually used the program to hire students. I would also add that we top up the salary. What do the students do? The students have written some excellent papers on global migration and the impacts of that. They've ended up working for different

Human Resources committee  We won't be having a student this year.

Human Resources committee  The answer is no, not enough is being done. On the numbers I recall, a quarter of a million aboriginal youth between the ages of 18 and 34 are going to step out of the post-secondary education system with degrees. Is the corporate world ready to absorb these folks? During our roy

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Denise. That's a very good question, and it really gives considerable concern about the speed with which the government has embarked on its policy redesign, and about the government's budget, which makes references now to making every legal occupation in Canada availab