Hi
rjessome said:
;D
Hey, have you read this? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-takes-aim-at-immigrant-waiting-lists-a-million-names-long/article2186976/
I wonder what Mr. Kenney will pull out of his bag of magic tricks next! He was so proud of reducing that backlog. And a bunch of lawyers are poised to make Charter challenges if his refugee reforms go through. As well, the new procedures being implemented at the IRB are not popular. That guy is not shy about generating contraversy. Whether I agree with him or not, I'm kind of a fan. He's fun to watch!
1. Read it, but there is always going to be a backlog, unless the points are raised back to 75. At 75 points (before the Liberals lowered it as an election ploy) the no. of skilled worker applications balanced out with the quota, within +/- 5%
2. If the Refugee lawyers don't like the new Refugee rules and IRB rules, then the rules are probably on the ball. Lawyers have a tendency to howl when their ox is gored.
3. Actually he is about the only Immigration Minister who has actually taken an interest in the Dept. Previous Ministers, it was just a stop onto something better. They never bothered to push legislation that the Dept. pointed out that would clear the backlogs, expedite refugee claims. (I lie, the safe 3rd country with the US got done. But the proposal was to extend it to other countries, which never happened)
4. One of the worse decisions was to separate the Investigation function and enforcement and the POE Immigration from CIC to CBSA. CBSA really doesn't care about the Immigration function at POEs, as you probably know from the problems that are reported here. Inland investigation with CBSA, they are only interested in the "big score". Routine investigation, just isn't done anymore. A prime example is the "buying of AEOs" All it would take is a visit to the prospective employer, to see it s/he actually exists, where there are multiple AEOs.
5. Processing times in-Canada are getting to be ridiculous.
6. Should be interesting to see how far the Mandamus application goes for the pre 2008 Skilled work applicants. Probably nowhere, but the lawyers should make a bundle.