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Cabinet Minister: Staff Person

cabinet minister: Article Continued Below My MP is a cabinet minister, and her staff have worked hard to find out what is happening, but they can get no answers from IRCC. A top official in Immigration Minister John McCallum office said four months ago that he would give his immediate attention to finding out from IRCC the status of the case, but this staff person was silenced, according to Toronto Star. At one consultation that I attended McCallum said ministers do not want to upset staff. We had good cooperation from the first staff person in making our application and we were told our application was complete in December 2015, but we have had no communication about the case since then. There are systemic blockages at IRCC and there appears to be no accountability to anyone except themselves. David Walsh, Toronto Feds decide to hold steady on immigration levels, for now, Nov. 1Canada immigration policies cannot be separated from Canada social realities. Where is the transparency that Trudeau promised in the last election The fact that this abuse of power affects the lives of many refugees is tragic. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.