Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, regardless of how the case comes to our attention, whether it's the United Nations that ask us to look at it or whether it's a group in Canada that sponsors it, the law requires that visa officers make an independent assessment of whether or not the individual meets th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly we recognize that we need to process refugee applications as quickly as we can. There are really two factors that influence the length of time it takes to finalize a case. One is the relationship between the number of applications that come in and the number of applicat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that's not what I said. I said there were two factors that affect, in this case--