Citizenship and Immigration committee  The design is a successful design. Much was done in a relatively short period of time on the information technology side. There are growing pains. There are known stumbling blocks. For example, hundreds of passports disappeared electronically from CIC's express entry system. Thos

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A computer does what someone tells it to do. The key here is going to be the instructions that will go into the automated decision-making system. Too much detail will cause error. Creaming off the easy decisions using profiling and to put it plainly a set of common-sense instruct

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, thank you. My heart was racing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. I'm not clear, based on the English and French versions of the proposed change, whether the intent is to hand over to the RCMP the biometric information as well as the related personal information taken at the time of collection or whether there is a division. Is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's an honour and a privilege to be here today. There are two provisions of the proposed law that will have dramatic positive impact upon the Canadian immigration system for the applicants. The second area that I'll discuss is rather technically dry, and for the sake of time I'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My goodness, there's no sense in regilding the lily. It's the right thing at the right time. It addresses directly a practical problem, so I come back to a more global view. Why aren't other countries adopting this? Canada's the model. I think you've nailed it, quite frankly, squ

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, that's what juries are for. It would be insulting to put that mindset into the category of persons who do not understand the nature and quality of their act. While we're talking about law school, going back to law school days in the criminal law courses, how do you trea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The peace bond is an additional tool in the arsenal that will protect Canadians and permanent residents from bad things. I just don't know why it has never been done before. On the effect of the mut'a, it would be disturbing if we found that Canadians and permanent residents eng

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It does, with one addition, an important one, that was raised earlier. More needs to be done on the information-collection side. More resources need to be brought to bear to allow women who, it sounds like, are in burqa homes and just can't get out. They're sheltered, covered. Th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm in favour of clarity over generality when it comes to the bite of our legal system. I'd add a prescribed list of known activities.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The designers, I suspect, looked at the other components of Canada's domestic law provincially, so marrying within Canada would be subject to those provincial laws. Those provincial laws have floor limits on the age of marriage; hence, it would not necessarily be a good idea to h

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The lifeblood of Canada's immigration program is precisely that question: can we do it better? Indeed, with dedicated individuals from coast to coast to coast, from a policy perspective, and with external stakeholders, experience feeds into the great system and we do things bette

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With this particular issue, the points raised were points I've been addressing in the last few days. On the one hand, enforceability—in Canada or outside Canada. My sense is that the primary target may well be protecting Canada's borders from individuals entering. In anticipation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Governments worldwide is too broad a subject for me, unfortunately. Each country in their own way will reflect values through the legal system. Each country will reflect through the legal system the appropriate pains and penalties for an inappropriate act. Here's where the pedal