Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's indeed an honour and a privilege to appear before the committee. I'd like to preface my remarks with a description of the decades of intervention on this particular issue. The immigration consulting issue encompasses the protection of people desiro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And this—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This goes to the heart, because the artificial intelligence system is the new lungs, heart, and circulatory system for the modernized system. I see a collision between the government's commitment to transparency and consultation and what IRCC has done to this committee. I have no

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. It's working.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's the Barreau du Québec and the Law Society of British Columbia, both of which I'm a member of, as well as the authorized third party consultants and the other provincial law societies. We're trained. We have insurance policies. We are there to protect the public, and we ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's fantastic. It's the best thing since sliced bread. Rather than hiding it, the department should be bringing it out in public and taking the applause. For example, it uses past performance. Where they see variables.... Where you have 95% acceptance rates, based on either a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It will work well, but disclose it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I would adopt the Quebec model for immigrant investor immigration. The challenge is bad apples on the ground in case-specific immigrant investments. The Quebec government doesn't have the time and resources to micromanage; instead it manages the dealers. It allows quota to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we do daily is request reconsideration. We do it electronically.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In reverse order, here are my answers. Yes, the United States does it well. They have a wonderful electronic system, from appointments right down the line. As for the service providers, I would make no additions and no deletions. We got that one right. Do you want to kick thos

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's case by case. I live with that hardship daily. Sometimes in order to access a decision-maker, I spend $50 on a judicial stamp to open a Federal Court case in order to have access to the Department of Justice counsel, who then liaises directly with the client, and between us

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I monitor the call centre quality assurance reports year after year. I can say if lawyers had that quality assurance outcome, that monthly disbarment list would be significantly lengthier. The call centre is sensitive, culturally and linguistically, and they are now patient. That

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think fees should be increased. I suspect that the dividends from information technology over the many years and the operational adjustments over many years have resulted in lower costs to deliver visas. It's rather incredible that no one has taken the time to re-examine

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm a “no new taxes” kind of guy, so I'm not in favour of reopening these centres. However, some serious consideration should be provided to dealing with emergency cases, such as funerals, marriages, or TRV refusals that are deserving of a second kick at the can. There's nothing