Citizenship and Immigration committee  What needs to be done, as you mentioned, Mr. El-Khoury, is that the couple needs to provide evidence of the genuine nature of their relationship. When there are doubts, this can delay the process and it can take even longer than the current length of time for the application to b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can you please...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you want to go ahead?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's worth serious consideration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I alluded to this in my second recommendation. I think it would be good for the department. I know that perhaps there would be a bit of apprehension, but the reason that Canada has such a great immigration system, generally speaking, is that we always look to raise the bar. I k

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By “repatriate”, do you mean they would have authority over admissibility as well?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not a constitutional law expert. I'm not sure if that's even possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a very difficult question to answer. It's a hypothetical question because, constitutionally, I don't see a path forward on it. If there were flexibility among the two levels of governments to explore that possibility, maybe I could give you a more definitive answer. At the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What aspects from the Ukraine program would you want extended to Afghanistan?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's seriously worth exploring. I imagine what you mean is providing them with an emergency authorization to come to Canada quickly, and then a work permit upon arrival.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There certainly is a higher demand to immigrate to Canada. It's a good thing that all these people want to come here. At the same time, the government has significant tools at its disposal to manage the demand. To give you an example, I believe you're referring to express entry

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do it now with certain programs. For instance, although it's not ideal, with the parents and grandparents program, in the past we would have a cap. People would go ahead and submit their applications, and once the cap was achieved, the government would close the program for th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a valid question that's worth exploration. We have to remember that one of the three pillars of our immigration system is to support humanitarianism. In the case of Afghans and Ukrainians, money should not be an issue in terms of supporting these people.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The low-hanging fruit is for the government to seriously explore collecting biometrics upon arrival. This issue has been raised with the government during the pandemic. Typically two concerns are raised by the government. The first is that if persons are deemed to be inadmissib

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, we haven't received a satisfactory answer from the federal government as to why it's taking so long. As you note, Quebec does the heavy lifting in shaping the eligibility criteria, selecting the candidates and processing them. When they're handed over to IRCC, al