Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to add to what Ms. Amad mentioned, I believe that community development or the community support sector can make meaningful contributions in offering strategies and working with the government, not leaving the government on its own to work on this, but perhaps instead by the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Should I take this?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to comment on two of the questions that were just addressed concerning the income and the length of stay extending from two to five years. We do support lowering the income threshold and the extension from two years to five. Two years is a short

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, if you don't mind, Ms. Amad had her hand raised for this question, so I'm going to go to her.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. At ACCT we know that sometimes immigrants living here may not have a very high income, but their parents living abroad have assets and resources. This is why we included the recommendation to give the option for parents to finance their stay. When local immigrants hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Dima, I can take this. Actually, to commence on the insurance issue, one of the things that we thought could help is allowing parents or grandparents to finance their own stay and to allow flexibility in the insurance coverage by allowing it to be according to the length of stay

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Redekopp and Madam Chair, and thank you, Dima. We distilled our observations on the bill and for it not to need to replace the path for permanent residence for parents and grandparents. We basically focus on the fact that multi-generational families are a cultural