Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks a lot.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Nick. Thanks to all three members of the panel for coming out today. My question is for Ms. Jilani. It's really an honour to meet you in person today. You have been, and are, a role model for me. Growing up in Pakistan, we watched your work and the work of your sister o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I represent a riding where people from across the world have settled. They run family businesses. They're small businesses that are creating good middle-class jobs. I think that where they have their families to give them a hand, that really helps them a lot in those cases. What

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are going to hear in the next hour from Michael Donnelly from the University of Toronto, whose research on Canadian support for immigration shows that Canadians are less supportive of immigration than we often assume, and that Canada is not immune to the sort of anti-immigrant

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Ms. Long, during many of our previous testimonies we heard about the relationship between the legal and the irregular migration streams. We heard about how cutting down on the availability of regular and legal immigration streams usually leads to an increase in migran

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Chair. Thanks to all the witnesses for their important testimony. Mr. Antunes, I was going through your report, “Canada 2040: No Immigration Versus More Immigration”. You wrote about the role of the family class in supporting economic immigration and the need to boo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you doing any specific TRP processing for the partners or the children?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do they apply from abroad or do they apply from Canada for their work permits? In many situations that's not very clear.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but exactly how many people has it impacted with this new change?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, please. The Minister of Immigration announced last year that the existing caregiver pilot programs would come to an end next year, in November 2019, and be replaced with a new, improved program. I understand some consultations are under way with the stakeholders on designin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  After a certain time, when the caregivers who are coming in have completed the requirements, they apply for permanent residency. Could you share some numbers on how many caregivers have been coming into the country, and how many go on to apply for and receive PR status?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were 1,500 applications for the PR?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the numbers. My next question is on the international students. I know attracting more international students to Canada is a priority for this government. In addition to their contribution to the economy, international students who decide to stay in Canada after gr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Chair, and thanks to all the witnesses for coming today. My question is in regard to the labour market impact assessment. About a year ago our government waived the labour market impact assessment for two different categories related to caregivers: when the care is ne