Citizenship and Immigration committee  With the exception of this provision, in every other aspect of Canadian society—business, government, our education system—we are encouraged to see people with health issues and disabilities for what they can contribute, not that they are a burden. This law is completely out of s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have no idea. Nowhere. It goes into my storage cabinet. There is no follow-through at all.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I really don't think there would be. It's not my impression that there are a number of people who have health issues who are just waiting for Canada to drop its medical inadmissibility provision, so that they can enter. Most of my clients are actually quite shocked when I tel

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's a very good question. As I said earlier, we actually benefit from this medical inadmissibility provision, because people turn to us for advice, assistance, and expertise, which we provide to them. It's a very resource-intensive endeavour to provide adequate submissio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I can say that our fees solely on medical inadmissibility are probably in the range of about $4,000 to $5,000. That is without the expert opinions that we often have to seek from doctors, specialists, psychologists, or autism specialists. The fees, then, are very high; how

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's no enforcement mechanism in place to follow through with these plans, and that's part of the injustice and unfairness. Clients sink a lot of resources into building these plans only to become permanent residents, and then, as I said before, they evaporate into thin air. S

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Thank you very much. We're very pleased to be here. We're very pleased that the committee is looking into this very important issue.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Michael Battista, and I'm joined by my colleague Adrienne Smith, from Jordan Battista LLP. We really consider ourselves, among the bar, as being medical inadmissibility specialists. We do a lot of this work. Our expertise really started in deal