Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As you can imagine, we're trying to deal with people from different cultures and different parts of the world. The IRB has many mechanisms. First, we have an extensive new member training program, which provides for the assessment of evidence. It's not easy to do this type of evi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I actually wonder. This really is the interpretation of the law, and of course we have a board member.... Now, with all due respect, the statute itself uses the word “inadmissibility”, and once again, the drafting of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act merged the two wor

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My officials here were able to get some information. I'm still not sure it is profound enough to answer your question. Thirty-one members out of 103 have indicated that their preferred language is French, but that doesn't mean that if a person has preferred English they're also

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The big question will be the one that you posed: how do we in fact ensure that his wife and that business are not actually appearing before him as a decision-maker? He's already indicated, of course, that he would recuse himself on a case-by-case basis But I think your question,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And the board member does the same in a response. The members swear an oath of office. They sign a code of conduct to maintain impartiality, and once they are qualified—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't believe it would be appropriate for me to commit to that today. I think the steps are being processed right now, today, as they are supposed to be processed. Mr. Volpentesta is dealing with his regulatory body and meeting those professional obligations. He will be d

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At the moment we have a shortfall in our members. We have a funded complement of 164, and we have approximately 105. So right now we have a shortfall. But since last July, 25 candidates have successfully gone through the new selection advisory process. Those are appointments that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, he cannot. At that point they do not get an interview, which would be the next stage. Reference checks aren't done. In essence, that are out of the process once they fail.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My official title at the board is senior general counsel, but at the moment, and I think this is clear for the record, I am currently the acting director general of operations, but I know a lot of stuff about—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I really don't know exactly what this booklet is from the Ethics Commissioner. The way it works is that a member goes directly to the Ethics Commissioner; they don't go through us. But on your other point, though, I do think this is not necessarily an abnormal situation where—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I was just about to say is that this situation where you have spouses or people together in law firms is not uncommon in our organization, because people are hired—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, what will happen when Mr. Volpentesta becomes a board member—on day one when he's a board member—is that he will sitting down with his manager and they will be talking about this very issue. Now, that is after he's dealt with the Ethics Commissioner and dealt with CSIC, etc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I think I alluded to this before. There are actually nine competencies that are viewed to be very important, and it is what is called a competency-based process as opposed to a knowledge-based process. I will simply read them out for your information. They are conceptual thi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we are anticipating on the immigration appeal division...and that's what you're speaking about, not the refugee protection division?