Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I have it here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In my day, as they say, right up until the 1990s, priority was given to spouses. If a husband came here on his own and then wanted to bring his wife, every effort was made to get her here quickly. The delay, again, is because of numbers, I'm afraid.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I completely understand that, and that's happening in many, many thousands of cases. But the facts and the reality of it is, from these studies, which are authentic and are done by StatsCanada, and so on, in the case that you gave, the grandmother may be helping the parents go ou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's all in the study I will table for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just have one comment on that. One study shows that family members over the age of 60 or 65 in Canada are making, roughly, below $15,000 a year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would heartily agree that there should be regional differences. We know there are regional differences in income and it would only make sense.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wasn't suggesting cuts in any one category. I was just saying that we are bringing in 260,000 or 280,000 immigrants every year, and probably almost the same number of temporary workers. They all have to be processed and that has put a tremendous burden on the bureaucracy. That'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you want to bring in your parents and grandparents—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't say they're necessarily a drain—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think they're too high in the first place. Second, the so-called emphasis on the economic class is somewhat misleading, because in the economic class you also have the spouses and dependants who the selected skilled immigrants bring with them. They're never counted into the fam

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Whoever gave you their advice about how to clear up the backlog I think was close to the mark. If you want to clear up the backlog...let me go way back. In the 1950s, if you were an immigrant here, you could bring your brother, your sister, your aunt, your uncle, your nephew, y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have any ideas. I'm very suspicious of the digital age.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Part of the problem is that too much of it is being done electronically and not enough with common sense. I went on a flight to Moscow last year, and I got to the airport and they found I wasn't on the flight. Why? It was because the Russians had switched my name from Bissett t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. All immigrants have to be examined for health purposes.