Citizenship and Immigration committee  The answer would be, Madam Chair, flexibility. Amending IRPA to provide a different duration, amending IRPA to do other things that are proposed in the bill, allowing for an insurance provider or reducing the minimum income, are all sort of programmatic requirements. The only o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think, Madam Chair, in IRPA there are the outlines for programs, visa programs, but the specifics are in the operational bulletins and the guidance that's used by the department to administer them. I can't say definitively that there are no specific programmatic visa requiremen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can go first this time, if that's okay. There are complexities that will be introduced if you have regional income cut-off requirements that will change over time and that have to be kept up to date. One suggestion might be for rural versus urban income requirements, depending

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if others have comments, but I would agree with that. That information needs to be very clear. In the program instructions it is clear, so there could be more information, better information, for parents and grandparents and their children who are in Canada. That's h

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Kurland. Thank you, Ms. Kwan, for the question. I think the situation you outlined happens to a lot of people. There should be some appeal process. For a visa application, I believe an application could be made to the Federal Court for leave and for a judicial re

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think if your main point is suggesting that there's a problem on the back end with super visa holders, their compliance with the expiry of their visa and their leaving Canada, that compliance issue exists for all people who enter Canada temporarily. Enforcement really does fall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would agree with the other witnesses who have said that the cost of buying insurance for a full year if you're not going to be here doesn't make sense. Mr. Kurland is suggesting that a parent or grandparent who is elderly does not apply for a super visa, but instead applies for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I agree with Mr. Kurland, and I don't have concerns about a prescribed list. If the minister designates a list of prescribed foreign insurers, CILA would be fine with that. It's just a matter of public protection and protection of people who come here with some foreign insu

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