Citizenship and Immigration committee  At the moment, I think many settlement agencies attempt to provide services depending on the needs of the individual. However, I don't think we have a lot of experience with understanding what works for different types of immigrants in different situations. For example, I don't

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been a number of studies looking at language training. The truth is, not very many look at the impacts of language training. We simply don't have good data on it. But we do have—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm focusing exclusively on settlement services. Right now we only go up to a limited benchmark. It's the same benchmark for all individuals, regardless of their profession. For many professions, especially people who are professionals, they would need much higher language traini

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You raise a very important point. Many people think immigrants who come to Canada automatically stay. The truth is, as you said, a very high percentage leave. I think Jeffrey has the right idea: support certainly matters. I think there's a bit more to it than that as well. Obvio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's true that there are settlement service costs associated with immigration. I don't know that they should be driving immigration policy, since they tend to be fairly short term. The greater costs that I'd be concerned about are people returning, and that is to say people leavi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the committee for the opportunity to appear and provide some context. Based on my close to 30 years of practice in the area of immigration, I presented a submission to the committee with a summary of some of the salient points in my remarks, and also

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for inviting me. Family class is motivated by many issues. This morning I'll be speaking exclusively to economics and related topics, which are my area of expertise. The first thing is to think about context. The formal family class immigration stream is only one asp