Citizenship and Immigration committee  Minister—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All we keep hearing about is more and more investments. Isn't there anything else you can do to fix the problems? Coordination and direction are lacking, but there has to be a way to change that. More than a billion dollars has been invested with nothing to show for it. That's n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Whalen. Good afternoon to you, Minister, and to the officials here with you. Minister, today the Auditor General's report came out on the management of immigration applications, specifically, the processing of asylum claims. It's quite a critical report. Let's s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have to stop you there, Minister. You're still talking about people who want to come to Canada and the fact that you're trying to discourage them. We all know changes need to be made to the third safe party agreement between Canada and the United States, but I'm talking about t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're saying that there isn't any backlog and that everyone has been checked at this point. Are you confirming this?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good. Currently, 540 CBSA officers are no longer doing their regular jobs in order to cover the ports of entry. Quebec has many ports of entry, of course. However, there are also ports of entry in all the provinces. Certain border crossings are an issue. The government has also

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You've been saying for a year that the Conservatives made budget cuts, which is why you're having issues. You're telling us today that the 540 officers deployed to deal with the border can continue the work. Is the rest of the CBSA officers' work still being done?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to remind the committee members that, on May 10, 2018, Mr. Ossowski, President of the CBSA, stated as follows: One quick example to explain any drop in the estimates might be that there was project funding provided for several large projects ... Those projects have come

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Minister Hussen and Minister Blair, first, I'm very happy that you've made two statements before the committee. Minister Blair, you confirmed that it's illegal to cross our border between the official ports of entry. The 2018-19 supplementary estimates