Citizenship and Immigration committee  Janet touched on a lot of important things. I think one of the things we're seeing this year that's exciting, because the landing targets for privately sponsored refugees this year is 17,800, is a lot of arrivals from Africa. Very few new cases are going in, but there are a lot o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think one of the things we should think about is getting out of the silos of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and Global Affairs Canada, and even thinking in terms of different streams of immigration and looking for multiple tools to deal with situations. We coul

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if I have much to add. I think source had problems, but there could be a mechanism to work with internally displaced people. I think it would take a lot of work to figure out what that would look like in terms of different environments to work with, the selection pro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for this invitation to speak to this committee. The Canadian Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association is a group of about 100 sponsorship agreement holders, or SAHs, as we call ourselves, who facilitate the application process and settlement