There may be changes in the immigration system as early as April. This article is from the CTV news has more on the government’s planned changes:
Immigration Minister Diane Finley says the Conservative government is willing to go to the polls over controversial proposed changes to the way the government selects new Canadians.
The amendment — packaged as part of the federal budget implementation bill tabled on March 14 — overhauls the current system, allowing the government to speed up specific applications and decide which type of people can jump the queue. It would give the minister the ability to cap the list of people waiting to be accepted into Canada and make changes to immigration policy that must currently go through Parliament.
The speed up part sounds good:
“We have to make it easier to get more people here faster. We have a backlog right now that the previous government ballooned from 50,000 to 800,000. It has since grown to 900,000.”
It seems that Juan may be in that backlog.
Finley says the changes are necessary in order to tackle the significant number of applicants waiting to get into Canada and to fill jobs that go empty while qualified people wait in the massive line.
She said her government has processed applications from immigrants trying to join family members in Canada 20 to 40 per cent faster than the previous government, and the new provisions would speed this up even more. The amendment will also allow the government to target immigrants depending on what part of the world they are from, providing the option of faster processing for those in troubled areas.
It looks as if these changes will take place since the Liberals are not willing to force an election over it
The Liberal opposition party promised to support the budget, virtually guaranteeing the budget implementation bill will pass. The NDP says it will not support the bill, which would replace immigration policy designed by the Liberals to ensure each application was treated with equal fairness, preventing those with connections from jumping the queue.
Do you think this will help this case? It is hard to know.
