Science and Research committee  Program selection is everything, because in different countries there are different job markets. For example, if in the market civil engineering is very hot, maybe in Canada it's not as hot, or in that region it's not hot. Unfortunately, it's not being done properly by the univer

Science and Research committee  With the data for 2019 that we have, 56% of international students stay here afterwards, but then when you survey them, over 75% said they would like to have stayed here. The difference is probably the ones who either can't stay or they found opportunities in another country. A

Science and Research committee  I believe if we can invest a little bit in the—I go back to the software that Immigration uses. One big problem is that it's very unpredictable. For example, with the students who got visas last year, right now those students are not getting visas, or vice versa. That is sending

Science and Research committee  Thank you so much for the question. The policies behind the programs are very good, but other countries will soon catch up. Right now delays in the process are not good. Things take a long time. For example, for the majority of places on planet Earth it takes six months to get

Science and Research committee  Yes, absolutely. I tried to cover it very fast so there would be time for others as well. The second recommendation I wanted to cover is on procurement, as that is very important. If you ask all the CEOs, the majority of them will tell you that a dollar of revenue is far better

Science and Research committee  Thank you.

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, committee members, for engaging on this important matter. It's very encouraging to see everyone talking about talent, how to attract the best talent and retain and develop it. My name is Martin Basiri. I came to Canada from Iran in 2010 to stu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Whoever came up with the idea of SDS was a genius and I thank them. They definitely helped those countries where SDS was implemented. That was a very good start. We need to make it better for everywhere to have a more dynamic SDS, rather than just certain states. The only countr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For example, for all intents and purposes, it has been an issue for years. Once and for all, we all have to shake hands, hug each other, and finish this. It just requires—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not that much, but almost with a majority of—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was also mentioned that the entire.... For example, in Africa, the visa rate is only 25% on average. It's not that we need to know why for questioning. We need to know what a student should do so the visa rate gets closer to 50% or 60%, which is closer to the rest of the world

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there are some schools that didn't refund students, and their claim was that students came for education, not to come to Canada, and they did not refund. That being said, there were many schools that were accommodating, as Mr. Champagne talked about, and they did refund. W

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I studied the last six years of visas. I did this from 2016 to 2018 and 2019 to 2021. It showed that the francophone Africa visa rate went from 29.5% to 26.6% during this time, after the IRCC adopted this, and the rest of Africa went from 26% to 25%. Francophone countries during

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, do I have time to respond?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From what I read about the case, we don't have that much information about the Chinook system. It seems like it's an Excel file and I don't think it's a real AI. AI can be extremely useful. For something like a student visa, it must be a very good AI. It can be transparent. I don