Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you so much.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the most simple ways to deal with it is that if you have, for example, a six-month visitor visa, you should report to an immigration office or service and identify yourself as still being in Canada or not being in Canada. Or, if your time has expired, you may have been dee

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What could be similar, which was cut off a few years ago, was that fiancées were considered members of the family class, and they were able to be sponsored to Canada, on the proviso that within a certain period of time they must marry the person who sponsored them to Canada. If t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The issue is that we're dealing with Canadian and American entries and exits. Let's leave aside our good friends in the United States and just look at it from this point of view. Here we are in Canada, and we have documentation of people entering Canada. We don't have any documen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The only thing is that when they do come to a port of entry, they then are recorded as to whether they have proper documentation—a student visa, a worker visa, or a visitor visa—or whether they are a permanent resident with all the requisite documentation. If they simply come in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That was referenced by a previous member of Parliament in regard to the government trying to expedite it—and God, I hope you do expedite it—because this goes on forever. Then, at the end of the day when the person shows up at the border, there may be harassment of the employer;

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, Mr. Lamoureux.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If an employer were here, I would ask the same question and so would you: “Look, you went through this whole process and took six months to get a truck driver here, and suddenly he was to appear and never showed up. What do you do to track him down?” And the employer would say, “

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Manitoba we have the skilled worker program, a great program that has been in effect with the federal government, contracted by the Province of Manitoba, through various different political parties that have formed the government. That has helped a place like Manitoba that is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it's a family class sponsorship, and many a time, depending on the nature and the background of some nationalities, they may have met only briefly, or for the first time, when they got married. Therefore, let's say you go through a process of sponsoring the person to Canada

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Arranged marriages in certain cultures are the norm. You can go back to, and I can take you to, clients who have an arranged marriage, met each other for a week, and ten years later are living together, with children and so forth. That's the nature of that certain culture. You ca

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hello.