Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a cut. It appears in the federal budget that has just been presented. We can't get away from it. Additional funding was granted so we could try to eliminate the backlog. As a result of this cut, here's where we stand.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've always maintained that the good business model is to have dependable staff, which creates continuity within the organization. When you bring in people on different projects where they're only in part-time or as a term, you lose that expertise when these people are gone. So

Citizenship and Immigration committee  People immigrating to Canada, new Canadian citizens, and Canadian citizens in general should be entitled to prompt service from their government in providing the much needed permanent resident cards or citizenship cards or proofs of citizenship. They should not have to pay throug

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Jeannette Meunier-McKay, and I am the national president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Amongst our 20,000 members are the workers at the Sydney, Nova Scotia, case pro