Mccallum: Home Life and System

mccallum: The changes won t just be good for those being admitted, McCallum said, according to Globe and Mail. People are more productive citizens when they are with their families, when they are at ease in their home life, so I think it is good for the country as a whole, he said. There is a current backlog of about 80,000 applications in the system, McCallum said. None of the mandatory security or medical screenings are being changed in any way, it is just that the system is being made more efficient, he said. About 280 people work in the Vegreville office and on Tuesday, the area member of Parliament, Conservative Shannon Stubbs, read letter after letter to McCallum about what it will mean for them to potentially lose their jobs in an economy already feeling the sting of oilpatch job losses. The need for greater efficiencies in immigration processing is one of the reasons McCallum has stood behind a controversial plan to close an immigration processing centre in Vegreville, Alta., and move its work 100 kilometres away to Edmonton by 2018. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.