Jason Kenney was Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2008-2013.

1:30 – The story behind Jason Kenney showing up unannounced at a CBA Immigration Law conference.

4:30 – The difficulties of being an immigration minister and Minister Kenney’s relationship with the bureaucracy and Deanna’s thoughts on Jason Kenney’s tenure. 

9:30 – Marc Miller’s attempts to introduce a program to regularize the status of undocumented workers, and his public statements that he was overruled by Cabinet. 

16:20 – Prime Minister Harper’s teenager looking for work and the overnight imposition of the 2014 moratorium on new LMIAs in the Food Service Sector.

23:00 – Record immigration levels, wage suppression, the collapse of the general consensus on immigration, and whether Canada’s record population growth was deliberately planned or unintended.

32:15 – The introduction of Ministerial Instructions.

37:30 – Diploma mills.

41:00 – What the scariest thing Jason Kenney did as Minister.

44:15 – Ending the ability of people to simultaneously claim asylum and submit an H&C application, and soaring asylum claim numbers.

49:50 – Is there anything Minister Kenney wishes he had used the notwithstanding clause on and revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention.

57:15 – Advice to people who are disillusioned with politics.  

Amandeep Hayer and Lisa Middlemiss join to discuss maintaining permanent resident status and upcoming changes to citizenship by descent law, both of which were topics in their recently published book Maintaining Permanent Residence Status and Acquiring Citizenship.

Amandeep’s article in the Toronto Star about Bill C-71 can be found here.

Bill C-71 can be found here.

Cases discussed include Bi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2012 FC 293.

Amandeep Hayer is an immigration lawyer at Hayer Law, based out of Vancouver. Lisa Middlemiss is an immigration lawyer at Middlemiss Immigration Law Inc, based out of Montreal.

Christopher Anders is a shareholder of Parker, Butte & Lane in Oregon (www.pbl.net), and a practicing lawyer who represents asylum seekers before the Asylum Offices of USCIS and in removal proceedings before the Immigration Courts of EOIR.

We discuss how record refugee flows are impacting politics and public opinion about refugees in both Canada and the United States. Also included is a sentimental sideline about the longevity of good pets (it’s a “tortoise and the hare” parable all over again…)

Sam Cooper is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author. He is the founder of The Bureau, and his book, Wilful Blindness – How a Criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West, debuted as a #1-seller on Amazon, in Canada.

We discuss the United Front, foreign interference in Canada, Canadian enforcement issues, IRCC casting a wide security screening net that seems to encompass all Chinese with STEM backgrounds, Parliamentarians allegedly involved in collusion with foreign governments, international students voting in nomination ridings, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 3/PLA and whether things are improving.

Published cases involving inadmissibility to Canada due to membership in either the United Front or the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office include Meng v Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), Zhang v Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) and Gao v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration).

Li v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 1753 is the decision in which the Chief Justice of the Federal Court expanded the definition of espionage to include those who may be coerced by China into providing information.

The past Borderlines episode where we mentioned Lai Changxing can be found here.