Finance committee  My goodness, don't discount Mr. Waldman's sage advice merely because he wants to sue you.

Finance committee  I was co-counsel, class counsel, in the first litigation against the then Government of Canada. I am not taking this matter to court at the present time. That's because I feel the government is doing the right thing. This is the right solution for a problem that has been plaguing

Finance committee  The Manitoba program, beginning in 1976 with the sewing machine operators, was a model of success. You target an occupation. You match it up with local demand. You bring in the people who will respect the terms and condition. In the northern Alberta experience, the Tim Hortons,

Finance committee  Yes, sure. There was no cap. Until we capped intake, we were taking in more files in a year than we could process in a year. Inevitably, the bathtub overflowed. And why no cap? It is because it's politically kissing the third rail of politics in the 416, 905, and 604 areas, the

Finance committee  Yes, sir.

Finance committee  There has been a paradigm shift in skilled worker selection. Don't forget that today, the provinces do the heavy lifting. More than 50% of today's skilled workers are selected by the provinces. After all, section 95 of the Constitution Act equally shares jurisdiction federally an

Finance committee  A delicate balance has to be struck. Canada does have obligations at the diplomatic level. We do have relationships with other countries around the world. We do respect their citizens. We should provide them the opportunity to taste the values of Canadian fairness. Fundamentally,

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I'm scared.

Finance committee  That's precisely the challenge, and for the first time we've seen solutions on the ground that provide real options. I take issue with some of the testimony you've heard today about reducing foreign workers to Canada. It's the opposite. Remember, a young foreign worker who is r

Finance committee  The mystery is.... First, 30 years ago, did we use Skype? Did we have IT like that? We have hard data that's now used to formulate policy—data capability that did not exist. When you crunch the numbers, it is perfectly clear that under the current selection system for skilled wor

Finance committee  I can well understand the look of disbelief when it comes to the issue of parents and grandparents. There were about 185,000 parents and grandparents in a backlog. That backlog developed from 2003 onward. The backlog, however, has been crunched and fixed, so instead of seeing loo

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know what five minutes means. The first thing is, who does the business risk of applying to immigrate to Canada belong to? That's the pivotal question. The way our system works, the applicant takes the business risk of applying to come here. Our system

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Today, we no longer have a visa relationship with Taiwan.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's because of this government, by the way.