Citizenship and Immigration committee  The evidence is that there is non-compliance. We have a lot of people running around whom we've lost track of. That's clearly within the public domain. We have tens of thousands of people we asked to appear who are here illegally and whom we have no capacity to manage or identify

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, again, I don't want to beat this to death, but I think it's an important point. We need to know who these people are before they get here. There are some simple things that can be done and more elaborate things that can be done, but really the time to know about somebod

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may. I would leave penalty to lawmakers, and you are lawmakers. I think you've opened a far more difficult problem, and certainly one that I'm going to give some thought to, which is how you separate intentionality. You have indicated that the vast majority of issues on inte

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, I will start on that. One of the traps I think we often get caught in, particularly in the context of our time, which is a very complex time with many issues, is that we tend to institutionalize silos. This is a problem that we have spent a great deal of time thinking a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For example, a police agency has a particular way of looking at the world. That's a function of their experience, the way they see the world, the clients they deal with, the population they have.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. The problem of crime, in your riding or in anyone else's in Canada is not simply a function of a local police force. It may or may not be associated with an immigration issue. It may or may not be associated with a multiplicity of issues. A poor quality education, wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Clearly, but that balance—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to address that to leverage off a point that Admiral Loren made. There is a real lack of consciousness in Canada about this thing called asymmetry. The 21st century has fundamentally changed the game. For the first time in human history, a single individual can make war on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a unique issue here that one of the parliamentarians mentioned in earlier testimony. We are the only country in the western world that has no national minister of education. Since this is a provincial responsibility, this is something that needs to be encouraged, and cert

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I, too, am a child of immigrants. I therefore echo my colleague’s comments, particularly that the majority of immigrants in this country are law-abiding and honest. They are striving to establish a better life and to integrate Canadian values into their own. On a go-forward basi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With your permission, Mr. Chair, my colleague is going to start. We've prepared this in a slightly different order.