Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's both. You're right. Part of the issue is that there actually are more applications. I see that in Delhi, for instance. Year after year, there are more and more applications—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you're talking about AI. I think that's absolutely right. AI can be a useful tool, but you have to make sure there's not discrimination happening and that there are not these criteria that are being implemented in a way that leads to unfairness. I think there needs to be

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. What I was saying was that, if you look at Public Safety Canada's website, it declares what's essential. For the pandemic, we were looking at what areas are critical infrastructure for Canada. One of them is government. Within that government heading are listed “Worke

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Kyle can't get off mute. Would you like me to jump in?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was in Kyle's role just a couple of years ago as chair of the CBA immigration section, and I can tell you that it is absolutely abnormal to have this number of people in.... I call it a backlog. The government may call it inventory, but it's a backlog of over two million people

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We need to know how the money is going to be spent. I do applaud the government for that. There was significant spending for modernizing the GCMS, global case management system, in particular, so that files can move around. Delhi is overwhelmed. They can move it to other visa pos

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with everything Kyle just said, and, yes, you're absolutely right. The point made is a beautiful one. We live in an age of instant communication. We have all kinds of access to email, phone, etc., so why don't they use this? Absolutely. The reason it's taking as long as

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can go first, I guess. My interpretation is not working but I did take French immersion, though I didn't understand your question. I take it to be about an ombudsperson. I do think that's a good idea. So far we've been talking about applications—not returning them, returning

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's nice to see you again. Thank you, Madam Chair and the clerk of the committee, for inviting the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association to appear before you. We comprise over 400 members of the bar from across Canada. One of our mandates is to improve immigration legislati