Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could stop here. I'd just like to set out briefly for you—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to very briefly set out for you why we felt there was a problem with what the report proposed and the government said it accepted. First, if it ain't broke don't fix it. The selection process we had in place was working extremely well. We were getting extremely good candi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Before I start, I want to make one correction. I don't want to appear under false pretenses. I am not a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board. I am a former member of the advisory panel to the Immigration and Refugee Board. The panel was the p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As part of our process we would examine, read over, all applications and résumés of those who had passed a certain low threshold, and that would consist, I suppose, over the three years our committee existed, of probably about five hundred to six hundred applications. We also w