Citizenship and Immigration committee  An average person looks at the CIC website or the VFS office website in India or in China and other countries. They make a list of documents, and 30 or 40 documents ask whether this or that has been provided. They obviously don't read the rules and regulations and act, and the on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So your question is, should we introduce a deposit system or something?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In principle, it's a good idea, sir. When this subject was before the committee, it came to our law firm as well. My immediate reaction was that if we do a good check, then the people who are giving the bond, as we call it here, if he is a good citizen in every respect, can be t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. That goes back to the question of what has specifically been asked. Yes, it should be given to the provincial governments, but there are two reasons why it's impossible to do it at this time. First of all, we have a judgment from the British Supreme Court in the Mang

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I have it here. Immigration consulting is my passion. Since I come from a legal background—I can't get a licence as a lawyer, which is another reality—this is the closest I can be to the legal profession. On March 7, the immigration department in New Zealand introduced a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So it's like the drug business. The money involved in the drug business is there. Whatever we want to do, the financial motivations of people are in this so much. I'll give you an example. We introduced this system of licensing consultants, and particularly giving points in the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have to go back in history a little bit. One hang-up I see is the ministers in the immigration department. We have seen more than a dozen ministers since 1993, starting with Mr. Gerry Weiner to the present minister. I have probably met each one of them. The problem arises w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Clearly, on paper everybody wants to be transparent. But when it comes to reality, it doesn't happen. If you look at the Dragan case, the judge mentions a very specific case about Mr. Majumdar. He was my client. I visited him in Indonesia, and we made so many requests in the Hon

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, subsequently, because what was presented by the lawyers in this particular case and what was coming in a deposition from the federal government and the bureaucrats were totally contradictory--the numbers given to the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From the very beginning. That's the law firm that sponsored me to come to Canada. I was in England and I saw their advertisement in Wayback. I said I was a lawyer, and that's how we started working. It's the law firm of Brownstein Brownstein & Associates.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In 1993? In 1993, the immigration department was a new department, and I got my interview in six months' time, but within two years, I was in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They're waiting six years plus, sir. The clients who applied in 2002--in India in particular, since I am of Indian origin--are receiving interview notices. For example, there is a businessman who owns a very big house in the province of Gujarat, where I come from. Before I left

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before we start, I just want to ask whether everybody has a copy of my presentation.