Citizenship and Immigration committee  When I talked about two hours, that means the slot is filled. It means first-come, first-served. The applications up to here are done; the rest are out. In my opinion, we should really have the resources—in terms of Canadian resources—to look at the application and see what these

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In my opinion, for an express entry or any visa or anything, it shouldn't be more than one year. It should be less than one year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with both Professor Reitz and Alex. I always think and ask, what do you mean by low earnings? What is poverty? Many cultures believe in a very simplified life that in your opinion as a western citizen makes you think they're so poor because they don't have meat every nigh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear your last part of the question. Could you please repeat it?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, indeed. It's a big issue when you use a number, say 19 years old, as dependence for children, and then if it comes to 22.... In different cultures we live with parents until we get married. Maybe we're 40 years old or 35 years old, and we still live with our parents. We are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. We should have the grandfather clause when you apply when your children are 16 or 17, and then you have to really focus on when they applied and when their age was 16 or 17.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I would.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I'm very pro opening the discussion on siblings and extending the family definition. I told you my story, I came as part of the siblings' sponsorship and I think this is working amazingly well for family reunification. All of a sudden, it brings down the quota of parents'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course, the cost is very important, but I don't know how to balance 10 years to 20 years of sponsorship and then have a high cost for four, five, six, or seven family members. I really don't know that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, thank you.. I'm thinking about whether we need a magic number in my opinion, and I'm thinking about how not every economic family wants to bring their parents or grandparents here and not everybody has small children and they need immediate attention. I think the quota sh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My opinion is that I don't know what magic number I can put on the table, but definitely this number of 5,000 applications, which then became 10,000, really is not working. In January 2016, they opened for applications, and within two hours the applications were done and they jus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely time is important, and it has to be really under one year to get all these visas granted to parents and grandparents. I think that's all I wanted to say.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before I came here, I talked to my settlement counsellors. Every day they see people from around the world coming to our centre asking different kinds of questions, and family reunification and sponsorship is such an important part of their work. They really suffer because of the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'm a good example of family reunification sponsorship. I will tell you my story very quickly, but not now. I wanted to start by asking, do we need a quota system? Do immigrants need another level of stress or anxiety? Research shows that immigration is one of the to