Petition E: Phased-in Approach and First-Served Process

petition e: This year the government moved from a first-come, first-served process to one where potential applicants were randomly selected by draw, according to CBC. The change was announced in December 2016 by then immigration minister John McCallum, just weeks before the deadline under the old system. Petition e-739, which closes for signatures this afternoon, calls on the Liberal government to take a phased-in approach and give priority to qualified sponsors who have made repeated applications. Brad Fach, a Cambridge, Ont., software engineer who launched the petition, was shocked to learn of the sudden change after he and his wife spent much time and money preparing the required forms and documentation to apply for her mother and father to emigrate from Belgium. I believe it mocks a very serious issue of family reunification, and is the wrong way to go, he told CBC News. 95,000 vie for sponsorship spots New lottery for family reunification Canadians can sway policy online Last week, the government announced that 95,000 people had filed an online form to win one of 10,000 spots to apply for sponsorship under the new lottery system. He said the government has reduced a sensitive, emotional process to an undignified, botched system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.