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Citizenship and Immigration committee It's an important question. We continue to invest in and update two types of training for our officers. One is on cultural sensitivity training, because I think that's a really important point that you've raised, but the other is on bias training as well, to make sure that our de
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Catrina Tapley
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have processing times for permanent resident applications under humanitarian and compassionate grounds in 2019. Madam Chair, I'm happy to get back to the committee with that answer.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Catrina Tapley
Citizenship and Immigration committee We have briefed the minister on a number of aspects of this. We continue to be concerned about the growing number of asylum claims. I think, as the honourable member has noted, we've had 64,000 claims in the last year, which is of concern. We continue to look at ways to protect
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Catrina Tapley
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Minister. It predates my arrival back at the department as well. I will commit to getting back on this question. One thing we have worked hard on is the transit without visa program, because it's so important to the airports in Vancouver and Toronto. It has been an
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Catrina Tapley