Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. I can only suggest that the existing problem be looked at differently. Lately I was looking at how cities manage traffic flows. There is a whole branch of mathematics that looks at this, and they observed that adding lanes to a highway increases traf

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. If we think about it, if we were going to mass-approve a number of applications, we'd have to consider what would happen. I think something like that would only cause more uncertainty and unpredictability in the system and lead to unanticipated consequences. Let's s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We should not scrap it at all. I think it's crucial to the rule of law. When my clients don't know what else to do is when we start talking about the Federal Court. Yes, sometimes the costs can be prohibitive, but the cost comes in a number of ways. I think there needs to be some

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think there was a witness who spoke earlier, Ms. Long, to build on Mr. Madani's point about doing it in Canada. The Internet is essentially one big visa office now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for inviting me. My name is Omer Khayyam. I'm an immigration lawyer in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I'd like to share some thoughts on the growing immigration backlog and possible recommendations. Immigration delays have direct consequences on