Citizenship and Immigration committee  The age of consent—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have looked at age of consent when it comes to women's issues in the field of polygamy. Polygamy is an overlooked area affecting choice parts of Canada, and age of consent, being a provincial matter, is relevant when it hits the immigration enforcement radar. So before tinkerin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, I am wondering how it is that these people arrive Canada and what their status was. Once they arrive in Canada, they marry. However, what is quite relevant is how they got into the country. Perhaps our witnesses in Montreal can elaborate on that. In my opinion, if a p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When I hear sponsorship, there are two flavours, chocolate and vanilla, overseas and inland. I assume we're not extending Canadian resources to protect the overseas sponsor. If it's just inland, inland processing times are about 18 months to 24 months. It's case-by-case adjudicat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't want to take the U.K. route, I think, in all things. A controversial policy in the United Kingdom is to impose a minimum language standard for spouses. I heard testimony: language, language, language. Do we want to go that route? On the other hand, practically speaking,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I used the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The data sets are from Statistics Canada, and I'm pleased to share current data that's extracted. The word “families” might be compounding parents and grandparents into the spousal category for a seven-year period. Anyway, those are details.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a true pleasure to be here with everyone today. There are three things: trends, justice, and processing time. I waded through the bank of immigration statistics. I focused on the period recently available, January to September 2013, to get a flavour of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Reporting. Reporting. Why can't Immigration Canada disclose internal trend analysis by processing posts by category, and allow for the determination of what I call the abuse variable? Is it 0.001%, 1%, 3%? You monitor that abuse, and reduce the refusal rate or increase the refusa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are no publicly formal exit controls at the present time. That's not to say that exits from Canada are not monitored. It would be a mistake to say that exits from Canada are not monitored. On the whole, it boils down to how much immigration abuse Canadians are prepared to t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm in favour of removing the mindset altogether, sir. I think, today—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —there are more information technology people at Immigration Canada than visa officers. This visa application centre system, globally, is serving for the first time in global immigration history as the intake portal for tens of millions of private citizens who wish to go to place

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I feel a deep honour and pleasure at being here today. In 2012, some 206,000 people were refused temporary resident visas. Likely more than half of the 206,000 individuals fully merited a refusal based on a lack of documentation accompanying the T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, sir.