Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just like to point out that obviously the people of Vancouver are not solely anglophones.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The key here is that the rules are rolled out in the form of ministerial instruction. It's not regulation. It's not statute. After a dinner party, the ministerial instruction may be changed, and 12 hours later changed again. It's that absence of parliamentary protection that serv

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's always an honour and a pleasure to be here. Knowing time is short, I trust I won't use my entire six minutes. This system is exciting in terms of potential. The creation of pools of applicants was a dream 10 to 15 years ago. Some improvements can be

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Today, buckle up. It might be a bumpy ride. This is unusually complex in terms of subject matter. The appropriate direction has been taken to remove, swiftly, foreign criminals from Canada, no doubt about that. The concerns I raise only pertain to two topics. One, I must take

Citizenship and Immigration committee  These are some of the safeguards. What about mischief? What if someone puts wrong information into that system using your name? Occupy something or other will put in the names of a lot of people if they want to disrupt the system. We need safeguards against that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It can be done by introducing the User Fees Act and stopping all those problems from appearing on the desks of members of Parliament like you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're doing a favour for our best friend in the world to the south. That's what's going on here. There's nothing wrong with that. We're harmonizing the layer of information exchange as a favour to the United States of America, and presumably, it's not a one-sided deal.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Flexible for whom, is my question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I apologize, Mr. Chair, but I must add that I would feel safer in that plane knowing the occupants had been pre-screened.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you look at the data from travel and its variations, there are only two things that cause people to go or not to go to a place. It's money and time. An electronic system is timeless. There will be a fee involved. Will that impact? The experience says, yes, it's going to impa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, no person is safe when Parliament's in session, of course. What Professor Gilbert pointed out is that the key in this is what questions are going to be asked. What information is going to be stored? Would it be mental health issues? That's something that would be prescribed

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For me, when I first read it, it was straightforward. This is a way for Canada's public servants to foist the heavy lifting onto someone else: members of Parliament. It's as simple as that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The fees will be reported. It's the service standard that's at the heart of evil for public servants when dealing with the User Fees Act. The User Fees Act will allow for the normal collection, reporting, and monitoring of the funds for this service. That's not the issue. It's no

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That’s a tough one. The principles are there. The principles are right. What we can do moving forward is take the benefit of expert witness testimony and move it forward at the regulatory phase. Maybe some meat is here, but I suspect the freezer is full when we come to the regul