Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's probably a better question for the minister than for us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, and thank you, Ms. Kwan. There have been very serious delays in the caregiver program. In terms of allocating resources to that program, we've certainly advocated that the first step of getting to the work permit be done more quickly. Again, it's about allocating reso

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Ms. Kwan. Certainly it's our position that IRCC should be providing applicants with an opportunity to correct minor deficiencies or perceived deficiencies. As I said, sometimes they're not even deficiencies. There may be a legal or practical reason why a particular docu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks. I agree with what Mr. Jain has said. Certainly, backlogs are a real problem now, but they're not new. I've been practising immigration law for 22 years, and there has not been a time during my career when there have not been major delays and backlogs under every governmen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A number of things gave rise to that. Certainly we've seen, I think, really difficult to justify disparities in processing times for work permits and for other types of applications across the global network. There are some real equity issues there, which I alluded to in my ope

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —efficiency and for equity reasons. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Ali. Just to clarify, we're really talking about returns of applications, not just refusals of applications. These are the regulation 10 completeness checks that have very severe impacts on people. These checks are fairly ruthless. The most trivial apparent defici

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. Currently, most refusals are pro forma. They're a form letter, perhaps with something checked off, but often with nothing checked off, so applicants are really given no insight into why their applications were refused. This means that they don't have an opportunity to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Honourable members of the committee, good morning. I also want to acknowledge the other witnesses. My name is Kyle Hyndman, and I am chair of the Immigration Law Section at the Canadian Bar Association, which brings together more than 36,000 legal experts