Citizenship and Immigration committee  Anything that makes it possible for a person to have a real option to live permanently in Canada and not to have the possibility of being removed, detained, and forced to leave, or whatever, is welcome by the NGO sector. In that case, if you are going in that direction, that woul

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The rate of acceptance is 1%.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're only referring to the fact that when you are non-status, the law doesn't provide any process that provides a real option for that person to live in Canada permanently. That's our point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we start doing our own business inside Canada first, I think it will be possible. But we have to start cracking down on the illegal consulting businesses here—and believe me, the authorities don't do anything about that. The only thing the government is doing is, if these ille

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just say that one of the problems we have with the bill itself is the preliminaries. If you check the Immigration Canada website, the only thing you have about Bill C-50 is questions and answers. Part of it is very short and doesn't have anything to do with all the discus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Ontario, there is a law that now regulates paralegals, and they are regulating them. Paralegals have to be members of the Law Society of Upper Canada. This is going to create an issue with the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, because if you're recognized as a paral

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have been working with immigration refugee agencies in Canada for almost 19 years. What you see in Bill C-50 and what you see in Bill C-17, and you hear presentations about it, is basically the dream come true of the bureaucrats. It is the position we have been listening to fro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning. It's always a pleasure to be in front of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. I will basically touch base on two issues that are going to affect the work we do with non-status people and temporary workers. The first one is about immigration consul