Citizenship and Immigration committee  The CESB is not available, sir; it's very clear. We have 24,000 international student members whom we just served during COVID-19.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide you the evidence.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Let me go back to the previous headphones I was using. My apologies again. Could you let me know if this is better or more appropriate?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All I want to say is that, absolutely, we support full and permanent immigration status for all migrant and undocumented people in the country right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maria, do you want to start?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You know, there is a pathway for care workers, and as you just heard, it's not a pathway; it's a minefield. We don't need pathways. We need immediate access to permanent residency. Every year, tens of thousands of people come to the country with permanent residency and others are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Honourable members of Parliament, thank you so much for inviting me to speak to you today on behalf of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, which serves as the secretariat for the Migrant Rights Network, Canada's only national migrant-led coalition. Cumulatively, Migrant Righ

Human Resources committee  Yes, labour conditions are under the provincial law, but the federal government, by creating tied work permits, indentures workers to those laws.

Human Resources committee  For the federal government, the best proposal is permanent resident status for all. The labour regime in B.C., at least in quarantine specifically just for those 14 days, made things a little bit better by taking over housing, but what happens after those 14 days? Are these debts

Human Resources committee  For all temporary foreign workers, all international students and all refugees, basically a single-tier immigration system.... Any multi-tier system where you are in a system of temporariness for a few years means there's exploitation in those years, and if there are exceptions..

Human Resources committee  The minute you land in the country, but first let's talk about the people who are already here. A regularization program—

Human Resources committee  Like any other permanent resident in the country who comes from across the country. Three hundred thousand people get permanent residency each year. They land without a job offer. They get PR. We do that even with refugees, some refugees, not others. There is a permanent system

Human Resources committee  Let's get the numbers right. The federal government has given $900 million. That's nearly $1 billion to agri-food businesses since March 15. Most of these employers make a profit of over $500,000, and the vast majority of them hire migrant workers. Therefore, it's not just $1,500

Human Resources committee  I'm just going to give you one much more recent example. We talked about these deaths and released this report, and Minister Marco Mendicino went on air and said, with regard to the agri-food immigration pilot, that they've heard us and that in fact it was the Liberals' idea and

Human Resources committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair. I don't—