Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: In a Star op-ed last week, immigrant advocates Debbie Douglas and Avvy Yao-Yao Go argued that the public consultation being conducted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC is deeply flawed. CICs online background paper and survey questions, they claim, have an overwhelmingly economic slant designed to produce responses favouring economic-class immigrants at the expense of family-class ones and refugees. Therefore, the authors urge, Canadians should weigh in on the consultation in order to ensure a full range of perspectives not just economic ones shape CICs plans for Canadas future, according to The Star. For Canada as a country to succeed, we need immigrants of all backgrounds and skills to come here to build a permanent home. For immigrants to succeed, they need to have a sense of belonging that only comes about when their entire families are integrated into Canadian society and What if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it? Thats an entertaining stumper. But what if immigration activists make an argument and no one grasps it? Thats something more serious and its a very real worry raised by current attempts to question the direction that Canadas immigration policy is taking. As for the nature of these non-economic perspectives, Douglas and Go assume them to be fairly self-evident. Immigration policy has multi-purpose roles captured by the concept of nation-building, they assert, adding: there is more to Canada than our GDP index or the size of our treasury. In line with that logic, they believe, a sound notion of national success goes well beyond economic statistics: (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.