In recent years, federal and provincial governments have declined to maintain public confidence in our system, capitulating to other interests and leading to a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment in the process
. He has served as the national chair of the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section and as a president of the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association.
I used to brag at international conferences about how well Canada integrates immigrants, and how no mainstream Canadian political party is opposed to immigration. But an anti-immigrant sentiment is now on the rise – and I believe this is because federal and provincial governments across party lines have failed in terms of “program integrity,” to borrow government buzzwords.
The Liberals also removed a visa requirement for Mexicans shortly after coming to power in 2015, when refugee claims from Mexico were at about 100 a year. Such claims had increased steadily to 24,000 a year by the time the governmentreimposing the visa but exempting those with a valid U.S. visa or those who’d had a previous Canadian visitor visa within the past 10 years.
Sadly, while temporary residents are being blamed for hospital wait times and a lack of affordable housing, they are often victimized first by immigration consultants in their own communities and then by government policies, such as the one currently being considered to limit coveted postgraduate work permits by linking them to areas in which there are labour shortages.
Then again, maybe the immigration consultants will be proven right if the government chooses to solve the crisis with the ultimate program-integrity capitulation: a blanket amnesty. Consider this CBC headline from last month:
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