Citizenship and Immigration committee  And probably replace it with other provisions that would accelerate the process of all these applications in the backlog, but not this way. There are other means available.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Such as putting more money in the system, having more civil servants processing the files. Who said justice was cheap?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are ways of accelerating. Our universities have accelerated the processing of student applications. I'm sure we can do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly, yes. That's what I understand.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's what I understand the mechanism does, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The applications you mentioned in your previous sentence would not have to be processed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I agree fully with that. And to this I can say that the fact that there's a backlog is an administrative inconvenience, but we are at the administrative inconvenience level, not at the justice level. It would be like saying that we're going to prevent people from making appe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are not many elements of this part 6 that I like. Probably what's needed is to scrap it altogether--at this point. I recognize that there are important administrative issues relating to the backlog. Something has to be done about that backlog, because that in itself is an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the idea of processing each and every file according to their order of appearance was a very sound principle. I don't disagree with the idea of having priorities, but having priorities should be something that is discussed democratically. There shouldn't simply be instruc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they do not. That is one of the three rights they do not have. The others are the right to vote and the right to enter and remain in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In my opinion, that question will come forward and will be referred to the courts. They will have to decide, for example, based on what mechanism it is possible not to render a decision, because that is one of the mechanisms provided for in Bill C-50. Up until now, we have been a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We should keep what is currently in place—in other words, that a decision has to be made, either positive or negative. If that is not possible, a brief paragraph could be added to say that if there has been no decision—positive or negative—after three years, the decision is assum

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good question. I know that it exists in systems that are not comparable to ours. For example, under the French system—which is not an immigration and settlement system such as ours, decisions are made without there being any form of appeal—but again, it is not a comparab

Citizenship and Immigration committee  International law is an imperfect system which does not provide a solution. There is no solution to be found in international law, for a number of reasons. One is that there are no detailed regulations with respect to immigration; they simply do not exist. There are regulations r