Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think Chantal Desloges spoke about this earlier. I agree that it was an administrative nightmare for Immigration to decide which child was in reality a student or was just in school so that they could be included in an application as a dependant. I also agree that the cut-off a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, there are. There is actually case law that gave very specific points on what to look for in order to decide if a person is in school or not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To be fair, we have seen a reduction in the processing times for spousal applications, and also for parents and grandparents—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —in the last six months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, you're not perfect yet. There was a suggestion earlier—I think it was from the Canadian Bar Association—that as we're moving forward with technology and with processing applications online.... Right now, we're only doing temporary status online, but I think it's coming that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just wanted to add that I like the idea the professor had because, in fact, assisted relative class used to be a category under the previous immigration act, whereby having a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident sibling automatically gave the skilled worker 15 points, I thi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We think the financial requirements are extremely high. The previous government changed the law, and the idea was when parents and grandparents arrive in Canada they become very expensive for the health system. I think that was the rationale, but unfortunately what happens, as we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You can't. The immigration appeal division has no jurisdiction.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually not if it was not disclosed. It is if the dependant was not medically examined.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Disclosed but not medically examined.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's precisely the problem, and that's why CAPIC believes there should be a change to allow an immigration officer to look at the circumstances as to why that dependant was not examined, and make a decision. If there was no intent to defraud or to misrepresent—let's talk about

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we do, and that's what we're saying. I mean, with those types of situations where after they arrive in Canada it is discovered that there was fraud, they could be written up and dealt with under the misrepresentation provisions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, the immigration appeal division has no jurisdiction over those cases because they are not members of the family class.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unless they are considered to be members of the family class, they cannot hear the cases, so we cannot argue humanitarian and compassionate grounds at the appeal division.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to speak before you today. I am going to repeat some of the things that we have already heard from the people who spoke before us. CAPIC is also very concerned about paragraph 117(9)(d) of the regulations, which excludes member