June 2014

As Canadian Employment Minister Jason Kenney considers major changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program, the opposition Liberal Party has put forward its own plan for reforming the troubled program. Liberal immigration critic John McCallum filed a motion in parliament that, according to the Liberals, is designed to make the TFW program more transparent […]

Canadian Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is vigorously defending his government’s sweeping new immigration law, labeling political opponents of the bill as hypocrites just as the legislation moves forward in parliament. Responding to both Liberal and New Democratic Party attacks on the government’s Bill C-24, Alexander said both opposition parties were “offside with Canadians who recognize

Questions are being raised about whether the Canadian government fulfilled its promise earlier this year to expedite immigration for Filipino victims of Typhoon Haiyan. In the wake of the deadly typhoon, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) pledged to simplify and expedite the immigration process to Canada for Filipinos who were “significantly and personally affected” by

Thousands of miles away from Canada’s parliament, concerns are being raised that a new Canadian immigration law could negatively affect the dual citizenship for some Israeli citizens. In the wake of the introduction of Bill C-24, arguably the largest overhaul of Canadian immigration law in decades, some experts in Israel and Canada are voicing concern