Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think your question is a very good one, and I would start with a couple of premises. Whether you are talking to your departmental officials today or you are talking to experts around the world, they will tell you immigration alone is not a solution to population...or even just

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the point you have made, that's what they're trying to do in the reform of the temporary foreign worker program. The last point I would make is a very important one, which I think you should examine in your study. You have an inventory problem. You have too many applications

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The new points system was established in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that went into effect in 2002.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But before that, there had been a points table for choosing immigrants for 15 or 20 years.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A points system is useful when you want to choose a person on the basis of human capital. When the time comes to try to forecast whether there is an immediate need for plumbers in Toronto or whether we need people to work in the oil fields in Alberta, the employer is not prepared

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If economic conditions were bad tomorrow and we had less need for plumbers and carpenters, but we did still need professionals, the points table would be a good way to fill those needs. That is why it is important not to see immigration as one avenue or one channel. There are var

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm the associate; I'm not the senior associate, but I'm glad I've been given a promotion.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We look at the existing spending, yes, the estimates and all of these things.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I understand the question, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not familiar with the specific spending of the immigration department in advertising, no.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I cannot comment on the bill, and, to be honest, I am not very familiar with it either. But I can say that there are different possibilities. Historically, Canada's immigration policy has always contained ways to manage the volume of applications received. Over the years, legisla

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Today, I don't know, but the last time I looked at that, when I had these responsibilities, Australia also had a selection grid.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But they also had a very strong movement of temporary workers for those occupations that are in high demand, and as a matter of fact, the adjustment that was made to allow people to apply for a temporary worker to permanent resident—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.