Citizenship and Immigration committee  First I'd like to speak to the cap that's been already put on the sponsorship agreement holders. Their ability as private sponsors to sponsor refugees has been significantly limited. They have people willing to work and support something like 8,000 refugees from various parts of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What the government has set is its highs and lows in terms of its targets and generally it comes nowhere near meeting its high targets. For the sponsorship under family reunification of children who are the overseas families of refugees who are already settled in Canada, it didn'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just want to mention that the largest backlog currently is in Nairobi, which had a target of 1,000 last year and a target of 1,000 this year. While the greatest number of refugees in Kenya is being processed through Nairobi--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, thank you. Good afternoon. I want to start out by saying that my name is Chris Morrissey. I've come from Vancouver. I'm grateful for the opportunity to actually speak here today rather than having to go back having not spoken. I'm also very aware that what I'm goin