Citizenship and Immigration committee  Basically what I wanted to say is that when there is sufficient cash coming across, it doesn't take time. When there is little cash coming in, that is when it takes time. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. Of course, you don't pick low-skilled people.... There are low-skilled people who want to have opportunities as well, and those are the ones you want to ask. You want to tell them that if they want to come to Canada, there is room for them here, instead of picki

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Succession planning takes a long time and usually it does not start on the day you want to move the farm over to the next generation or to a newcomer or to a local. It doesn't matter who. Succession planning starts basically when you start farming and you start thinking about you

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I cannot speak on numbers, but that the immigration levels should increase is a definite yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I would agree with that 100%. It's the same thing that we had when we first came to Canada. In the investor group, you basically were allowed to come in on a somewhat fast-tracked approach. We should do the same thing now with the lower-skilled immigration levels when there

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With regard to retaining and investing in farms, every one of us invests on a daily basis, regardless of the tax system at play. We have to learn to live with the tax system, including how it's implemented and how the shortcomings of the tax system work. We try to alleviate those

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course it is very desirable to do that and to take that path. The one opportunity that is lacking, again, has to do with the services the rural areas have. If they come to a rural area.... I'll use my hometown, Salisbury, as an example. We are 20 minutes away from Moncton. T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members, for this opportunity to speak on immigration in Atlantic Canada. As a representative of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and an immigrant myself, I'm pleased to discuss how critical an effective immigration system is to agricul