Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Temporary residents in Canada who have been accepted here as workers and are paying taxes.... I think the way the law is now, their taxes are worth less than the taxes of Canadian citizens and permanent residents, because no Canadian citizen or perman

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question, Ms. Kwan. I would like to point out what my fellow witness, Mr. Bellissimo, spoke about, which was Hilewitz in 2005. It's not being applied as it should be. Currently, even with Hilewitz and with paragraph 38(1)(c), the charter isn't being applied as

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. On a very basic level, I was paying twice as much in taxes as what the excessive demand seemed to suggest my son would cost, so Canada would have lost economically, in that sense. Apart from that, every person's value is incommensurable, but I can m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank you for this opportunity to address the committee. I'll begin my statement by giving a brief account of my case, followed by recommendations for policy changes based on our experience. Last year my family and I were deemed inadmiss