Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sir, I support the program, but I would like to move on, if I could, and address your concern. Yes, we do, because we want to do a good job for the Canadian citizenry. However, sir, temporary people fill the same chairs with different faces year after year after year. Those same

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All I'm saying, sir, is that for years Sydney has been staffed with temporary employees. Yes, they sign a contract. I sign a contract for a six-month term and it turns into a 12-month term that turns into an 18-month term that turns into a 24-month term. Then when the government

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As someone who has processed applications as well as worked in the mailroom, when I get your application and am working on it, say, on January 15, that application would have been received in our mailroom in maybe May of the year before.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So it's taking that long for it to get from the mailroom to my desk to process. With the cuts to more staff, that wait will just get longer. I'll just share a couple of anecdotes with you. When you have an application from a young person who is 16 or 17 years old and has the opp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the application isn't complete, we have to send it back to the applicant to include what is needed. Then it comes back into the mail system again. Now, not only has the application been delayed, but the extra information we needed on the applicant has also been delayed. So we'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Eyking and the rest of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. As far as your question goes, CPC Sydney is proud to represent the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and we're proud to do the job we do. Year after year, by hook or by cro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All the way, sir.