Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was having some sound problems. Can you please ask the question again?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think one way to do that would be to provide pathways for individuals there to be able to travel to Canada and gain a status in Canada, whether as students or temporary workers. At least create the paths to permanent residency for them, whichever pathway brings them to Canada,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Initially there was the lottery system. As I pointed out, the lottery system was replaced with what we jocularly refer to as “the fastest finger process”, whereby the fastest person to file the application will be selected. Later on, the whole process was frozen, earlier this ye

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Getting my mom here was a very big and difficult challenge. I'm a lawyer by profession, so one would assume that with my being a lawyer who is very competent with immigration law, it would be a smooth ride. Unfortunately, it wasn't. First of all, I partici

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and honourable members of this committee, for this invitation. I am a law professor at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Law. I'm also the president of African Scholars Initiative, ASI-Canada, a registered not-for-profit organization t