Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Chow, perhaps I'll just reiterate our executive director's comments. Briefly, here is one of the things I've found as a work placement advocate. In our enhanced language training program, we deal with internationally trained professionals. In order to get into our program,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I understand. To answer your question, no--by and large they're dealing with more elementary issues; however, they are concerned.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In answer to the question, I attended the original technical briefing at Richmond Hill. No, we were not consulted prior to it, but I would like to also add that I asked a question to the chair of that technical briefing. One aspect of Bill C-124 was that the minister would be a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I suppose that at the end of the day, when we prepared our brief, we could have made fifty points. But unfortunately you only have seven minutes in which to give a presentation, so trying to make fifty points in seven minutes is virtually impossible. I know I'm probably not ans

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I refer this committee to the writings of Dr. David Foot, a renowned demographics expert, who has reiterated in his writings that current and future predicted demographic trends indicate we have an aging population and will continue to have one for the foreseeable future. He furt