Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights.
We discuss her recent book, The Walls Have Eyes Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
#114 – Are Immigration Policies Hurting Canada’s Economy, with Mikal Skuterud
Mikal Skuterud is a Professor at the University of Waterloo.
We discuss the impact of immigration on housing prices, foreign workers, lumping Francophone migration objectives under economic immigration, international graduates facing barriers to immigrating and more.
#113 – Improving Judicial Review, with Cheryl Robinson
Canada’s Federal Court is conducting a review of its rules. We discuss some of the proposals, which include letting consultants do judicial review, an upcomming pilot project to simplify judicial reviews, whether filing fees should be increased, ways to reduce the number of judicial reviews, and more.
Cheryl Robinson is an immigration lawyer in Ontario.
#112 – Sex Work, Only Fans and Canadian Immigration, with A. Connie Campbell and Frances Mahon
Frances Mahon is a criminal defense lawyer in Vancouver at Pender Litigation.
Connie Campbell is an immigration lawyer at Edelmann & Co.
We discuss the law of prostitution / sex worker in Canada in the criminal context, restrictions on foreign nationals finding employment in industries such as massage parlours and strip clubs and whether foreign nationals can set up Only Fans accounts.