Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wholeheartedly concur.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two prongs. Here's a simple, elegant, immediate, low-cost solution: all IRCC has to do is indicate the category of permanent residence and the remaining target of the year for that category, and also publish the inventory at the same time. If it's first-come, first-serv

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Why are we paying millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to invent an IT system, a website system, that is already fully functioning in a sister department? Why?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In all likelihood, with due respect to the former witness, it is intense appearing before the committee, and people may misspeak. The Income Tax Act requires citizens, non-citizens, permanent residents, and foreign nationals to report income based on their personal circumstance

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In 90 seconds, should the design of the IRCC website regarding modernization be disclosed, we would then be in a position to judge whether the CRA model for intake and information distribution is better. CRA has a single portal. You input your personal information, and they've

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The problem will remain with our country for as long as our country is a free, open, democratic society where we allow travellers and individuals to live freely. Some will speak English or French and some will not. How to deliver the service? Our institutions have developed anci

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My goodness, the last processing fee review was done when?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Was it 2001 or 2002? The only recent fee change reduced processing fees. For the combination of multiple entry temporary resident visa, a single entry, visitor extensions, and restorations, the average processing cost for that cluster of four is $106. What happened was that the $

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. In the old days, the Government of Canada had to examine educational credentials and language capability. We upload third party credentialling certificates. That cost component is included in the old processing fees, but no one has ever examined whether anyone's maki

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to blow any chance I ever had at a Senate seat with this answer. At the time, it was Mr. Peter Harder who was deputy minister at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and he took an executive decision to close immigration centres to the public. Ever since tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is no evidence available upon which to base a reliable answer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Why, yes. The question for members of Parliament is, do you have the same level of demand for CRA-related cases? How is it that there's no special hotline into CRA, just immigration? As long as you accept this, it will continue. One way is to go public, which is not difficult

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good one. The trend began in earnest after a test run maybe eight to 10 years ago. The trend accelerated four years ago.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the honour and privilege of appearing here today. I have only seven minutes. I'll speak on two topics. The first is modernization of the way people get to understand how to use the immigration system, and the second is the modernization of the way of processing i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The reality check is that it's the political third rail in this country to allow for an expectation that's not delivered when it comes to the immigration of parents and grandparents. Rather than kicking the ball down the road and hoping that this thing self-fixes in a number of