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Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay, yes, but you were referring to this year.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Specifically, no, I do not know the exact statistics, but I know that there is, and over the years—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay, but your question was for this year and I believe I said I did not put a statistic on for this year.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay, so what was—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay. Over the last 10 years, what would you say the percentage was?
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, it hasn't.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee You can tell me last year and you can tell me this year, but if you average it over 10 years.... We're not talking about people coming to live here for one or two years; we're looking at decades, right?
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee I understand that there is a 20-year sponsorship. My question is, you have to prove a certain level of income, but are you aware of any job that's guaranteed for 20 years, and what happens if the sponsor defaults? Does that person then go back, or do taxpayers then have to pick u
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee If they lose their job, they're not able to pay for that. Who pays for it? It comes back to taxpayers. It does come back to taxpayers. If you're not able to pay it, you're not able to pay it.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't have a problem with the super visas because a lot of that responsibility is on the sponsors themselves.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee I never mentioned it for this year, because I don't know what—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee For this year? I don't believe I have it for this year.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Enough that if we're on the hook for it, as taxpayers, it's too much. How do you hold—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee “Enough” could be if someone agrees to a certain length of sponsorship, and they're not able to back that up, then they're defaulting. Whether it be 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, why does it then become the taxpayers' problem?
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're asking me for specific numbers, and I believe I mentioned before that my information came from various—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Gishelle Albert