Conservative platform
- Create an efficiency mechanism where those waiting for an application to be reviewed can pay a fee for expedited processing; the revenues would be directed towards hiring additional people to reduce the overall wait times. (source)
- Move the infrastructure of immigration online and record all interactions between immigration officers and applicants; use remote meeting technology to match applicants with immigration officers who best understand the cultural context of the applicant; allow applicants to make minor corrections to applications. (source)
- Launch a Credential Recognition Task Force to develop new credential recognition strategies, including pre-qualification. (source)
- Replace government-assisted refugee places with private and joint sponsorship places, meaning that all refugees arriving in Canada would do so under private or joint sponsorship programs, except in cases of emergency or specific programs; and broaden the definition of “refugee” to allow sponsorship directly from countries of origin. (source)
- Make the Rainbow Refugee Assistance Project a permanent government program. (source)
- Amend the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States to remove the option for people to claim asylum in Canada if they cross into the country outside a legal point of entry. (source)
- Give greater autonomy to Quebec over immigration to ensure a higher proportion of immigrants settling in Quebec speak French, including in the family reunification category; provide full compensation for the housing of asylum seekers who crossed outside legal points of entry. (source)
- Liberal platform
- Resettle 20,000 Afghans threatened by the Taliban, including women leaders, human rights workers, LGBTI individuals, family of previously resettled interpreters. (source, PBO analysis)
- Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to give the minister the authority to help select permanent resident candidates who best meet the needs of the labour market. (source)
- Eliminate citizen application process fees for permanent residents who have obtained the requisite criteria. (source, PBO analysis)
- “Introduce electronic applications for family reunification.” (source)
- Develop a digital platform to replace the Global Case Management System for the immigration system as of 2023, spending $428.9 million over five years. (source)
- Fund migrant worker-centric programs and services, with $49.5 million over three years. (source)
- Increase workplace inspections and ensure rights of temporary foreign workers are respected, spending $54.9 million over three years. (source)
How is conservatives bad? Now we have to see the dancing chimpanzee Marco Mendicino again , useless minister.
