Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The process they have now would be optimal with the improvements that we've recommended here today.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't agree with that. Again, it could be a regional difference, but in Toronto it's absolutely not the case that most people are civil servants.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a fairly diverse mix, at least in the central region.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think vacancies of any kind are a serious concern, because when you don't have a full complement of people who are making decisions, you get backlogs. When you get backlogs, you incentivize people with weak claims to make claims because they get the benefit of staying in Canada

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They should be fully staffed up. There should be enough decision-makers to make these judgments within a reasonable period of time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To listen to the administration of the IRB, yes, I think that is the problem. It's under-resourcing. As far as I know, with this influx of irregular border-crossers that happened, which has increased the backlog quite substantially, there hasn't been a commensurate influx of reso

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A regional difference is also possible. In the western region there are perhaps more of them, but certainly in the central region there's no big weight of former CBSA people who are sitting as board members. There are some, but definitely not the majority.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for having me here today. For the record, I'm an immigration and refugee lawyer with over 20 years of experience working with refugees, and for 19 of those years, I've been appearing before what's now known as the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's two separate questions. In terms of the analysis, it needs to be measured for those people who are admitted. What actual expenses did they incur? Does it match up with what the projected cost was, or not? Also, are people complying with their mitigation plans? We don't ne

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Two of them come to mind right off the top of my head. First of all, the way the procedural fairness letter is written—the way it's worded—uses a lot of legalese. It's hard for people to understand it and to understand the tests they need to meet and what information they might

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The state of the law now is you have to offer someone a chance to do that. It's procedurally fair. It's mandated by the Supreme Court, so unless there were substantive legal changes, I don't see a way around it. The simple fact is that it needs to be explained better to people so

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It also doesn't take anything away from the rights of those who don't have the means to offset the cost because they can make all of the arguments that the current system allows them to. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and committee members. It's a pleasure to appear before you today. My name is Chantal Desloges. I'm an immigration and refugee lawyer with close to 19 years of experience. I'm certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in both immigrat