Citizenship and Immigration committee  The advantage is that, if the IRCC is non-racist and non-discriminatory in applying its policies and measures, we would see a difference in the economy here in Canada. If employers hired the people from different countries following an unbiased process by the IRCC, we would see n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If somebody is embedding the code and their belief system is racist, we cannot take care of one set of belief systems. I think proper training procedures would help up to a certain point. Human oversight is necessary for AI systems, but we always need a a fair audit process to ad

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is a worker shortage in Canada in every province that we are witnessing and reading about in the reports. If that shortage has to be addressed there's only one way. The immigration system has to be polarized or made in a better way so that every application is treated equal

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. As Ms. Rayale mentioned in her earlier speech, that Pollara report should become an annual report audit process within IRCC to address those racist issues in the system, and the setting of an ombudsperson who looks after the appeals that have been brought up or the problems

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Due to these hurdles, the effect on businesses not only in Saskatoon but all over Canada would be a very damaging effect on the economy of our country just due to high refusal rates, especially from certain countries. Employers would be unable to hire qualified employees for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On that note, in my personal experience I have not faced anything like that, where they would face racism while they are in Canada, but they do on their applications when they apply to immigrate or work in Saskatchewan or any other province in Canada. The racism exists in how the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the system itself they have started using technology to process the applications. I'm not into technology much, but I see the same people who are coding and embedding those codings into the system to process the applications. They may take into account those factors, and if so

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Fortunately enough I have not had any bad experiences with the CBSA working style up until now, but I cannot say that with the way things are going right now.... I may see a few in the future, and then I would like to comment on that again.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there is differential treatment on this aspect for the different employment streams by the feds and the provincial governments. Once a provincial government nominates a person for a work permit to come to Canada and join an employer, the feds take about two years before they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for having me here today and giving me this opportunity to represent the issues faced by immigrants in the Canadian immigration system, which I would like to bring up in today's meeting. To begin, the processing time for applications that have