Citizenship and Immigration committee  To qualify that statement would be quite extensive. I believe you can refer to our written submissions that we have provided to the committee, which go into far more detail in the exact manners in which the Canadian immigration system and policies perpetuate and act as a vehicle

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. I agree with those statements 100%. Some immigration streams are available for siblings who want to sponsor other siblings, but they're extremely limited and they don't encompass how people perceive their families. I think it is completely contrary to Canada's objecti

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Very quickly, I think we can say, at least from the clinic's perspective, that we believe the current U.S. administration has not really been standing up for its human rights obligations in regard to asylum seekers who present themselves at their borders. We see this with the mig

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I echo my friend here with regard to his assertions that we absolutely need to have live-in caregivers and other migrant workers to have permanent residency on arrival. We also believe that section 31 on medical inadmissibility should be repealed. We also have concerns surroundin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have seen cases where poison pen letters have had severe consequences on our clients. They come to us looking—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. There were threats of removals or, at least, hearings. At that point we try to find another stream, or we assist with the misrepresentation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't really speak to that, but I can tell you what we see often in the clinic. At least in our experience there, we often see that since the conditional permanent residence scheme that required, like you said, the spouses to live together for two years before permanent residen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Honourable Chair and committee members, We are honoured and grateful to have the opportunity to speak to you today about the gaps and challenges in Canada's refugee and immigration policies. First, I will provide you with some background on the clinic. The Barbra Schlifer Commem