Citizenship and Immigration committee  The biggest problem we've seen with immigrants coming through the points systems and their performance in the labour market has to be the work experience factor. The points we give to work experience are quite large in the points system, yet experience in the labour market itself

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is a very difficult question: what should the overall appropriate level be? I remember the 1%. The only time I've ever come out against an economic study was in 1990, when the Economic Council of Canada suggested that we move to a 1% target of the population. I don't have an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't want to oversimplify the results that I presented earlier. What I'm trying to say is that the economic results of immigrants who come to Canada should be a very important factor in deciding how we run our immigration system—that means how many people we let in, what share

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The one point of clarification I want to make is that the figures I presented earlier did not represent the result of the Canadian-born population's earnings. I was presenting the results of the immigrants' earnings upon arrival. So when I was talking about increasing the total n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it's a very challenging question. And the point I was trying to make was I don't think there is any easy quick fix for us to do this in a reasonably short timeframe and in a way that will not affect, in one way, shape, or form, the already growing problem we have, not just

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you directing that to me?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. I guess the short answer would have to be that by relying solely on one tool, whether it is the total immigration level or especially with the effects that we saw in the academic studies that we performed.... And we track data on all immigrant arrivals to Canada. So by look

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. My final point is that the point system itself could be realigned to help some of these problems. It would be a more transparent and reliable screen than bureaucratically determined occupational need, or provincial nominee fast-tracking. I'll conclude with that point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, and thanks. Thankfully, Mr. Noorani and I share a lot of opinions. On a per capita basis, Canada runs one of the largest immigration systems among the world's advanced economies. The annual inflow of immigrants to Canada, which is about 260,000, is roughly equ