Borderlines

Ryan Rosenberg is a Partner at Larlee Rosenberg, and the creator of the website Trumpugees. We discuss options and factors to consider for Americans wanting to move to Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shezan Muhammedi is an Acting Assistant Director at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Carleton. He is the author of Gifts from Amin - Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada . In 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of nearly 80,000 Asians, predominantly of Indian descent, giving them just 90 days to leave the country...

Richard Mosley is a retired judge from the Federal Court of Canada, with a background and specialization there in national security cases. We discuss the path to becoming a judge specializing in national security, the unique physical environment of working on such cases, and the security provisions within Canadian immigration law. Other topics include delays in processing, abuse of authority, CSIS...

This episode originally aired on December 13, 2016. We are reposting it as it provides an overview of the history of Canadian national security law, and next week we will be airing an episode with a recently retired judge who was designated to handle national security matters. This episode contains an overview of the history of national security law in Canada, starting with the MacDonald Commissio...

Deanna and Steven discuss the most baffling rules and programs in Canada's immigration system. We also answer multiple requests to comment on the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association recent statement that immigration consultants should be restricted to working for lawyers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Steven and deanna discuss the recommendations section of the recent report from the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration regarding "closed work permits and temporary foreign workers" (full report here ). Our discussion also touches on the recently announced "Gender-based violence guiding principles and commitments" released by the Canada Border Services Agency. The co...

Andrew Mattu is the Principal Lawyer at Godwit Law Office , an immigration law firm, in Brampton ON. Ajaypal Singh Ahluwalia is an Associate at Godwit Law Office. We discuss restoration of status and Temporary Resident Permits (TRPs). Topics include how people fall out of status, eligibility for restoration of status, restoring to post-graduate work permits, removal during the restoration period,...

Douglas Cannon is a Partner at Elgin Cannon & Associates. A significant part of Doug's practice involves helping refugees and protected persons navigate and defend against "cessation" applications. Cessation applications can strip refugees of their refugee status, as well as Canadian permanent resident status, if it’s found that they no longer need protection, based on specific grounds, includ...

A discussion of Canada's 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan and the 2024 Report to Parliament on Immigration, in which the Trudeau government cut planned permanent residence levels by 20%, imposed caps on the number of international students and workers that would be allowed into the country and declared that they expect 1,000,000+ people currently in Canada to leave in the next few years as a resu...

Alice Craft is a Research Associate in the Immigration knowledge area at the  Conference Board of Canada . She recently published a paper titled Small Business, Big Impact Immigrant Hiring and Integration in Five Canadian Cities . We discuss the key findings of that study -- namely, that: In fast-growing small and mid-sized Canadian cities, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

This episode orginally aired on October 28, 2016. A discussion of the role of immigration on the Vancouver housing market. Tom Davidoff is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He is frequently cited in the Vancouver media as being an expert on Vancouver's housing market, and was part of a team of nine academics who created the B.C. Housing Affor...

Mike Moffatt is the Senior Director of Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at Ivey Business School, Western University. He is the host of the Missing Middle podcast. 1:20       Mike's speech to the Liberal Cabinet in August 2024 re. the impact of the Temporary Foreig...

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...

This episode originally aired on November 30, 2020. The Honourable Chris Alexander served as Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada from July 2013 to November 2015. He represented the riding of Ajax—Pickering in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that spent 18 years in the Canadian Foreign Service, serving as Canada's first resident Ambassador to Afghnistan...

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...

Christopher Anders is a shareholder of Parker, Butte & Lane in Oregon. He focuses his practice on representing 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 in both Canada and the United States. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, I...

Arshdeep Kahlon is an immigration lawyer in Brampton. He was counsel in Singh v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) , 2024 FC 1369 , where the Court had to determine whether it is misrepresentation for an applicant in a visa application to not disclose that they were previously not granted entry to the United States while flagpoling. Topics include what flagpoling is, when one should flagpole vs...

Raj Sharma is an immigration lawyer in Calgary. We discuss spousal sponsorship applications and appeals, showing that a relationship is genuine, arranged marriage, the primary purpose of a marriage, interview preparation, how Immigration Appeal Division appeals work, interpretation issues, in person hearings vs. remote, res judicata and inconsistencies in a relationship history. Hosted on Acast. S...

Andrew Hayes is an American immigration lawyer who practices out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously appeared on episodes #32 - Keep Out the Poor - How Canada and the US Address Immigrants on Welfare, with Andrew Hayes , #37 - The Closure of the Canada - US Border and the Supreme Court's DACA Decision , and #41 - Judges Virtue Signalling Inside and Outside of Court . We discuss various t...

Deanna and Steven discuss what we consider to be some top Federal Court immigration decisions to this point in 2024. Cases include Toor v. Canada , 2024 FC 1146 (restoration), Chung v. Canada , 2024 FC 1218 (misrepresentation when a degree is obtained through plagerism), Abdool v. Canada , 2024 FC 1172 (misrepresentation and involuntary cancellations of US entry attempts), and Alohan v. Canada , 2...

Siavash Shekarian is an immigration lawyer in Toronto, and the Executive Member & Public Affairs Liaison of the Ontario Bar Association, Citizenship and Immigration Law Section. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deanna and Steven discuss Canada's caregiver programs, including the Live-in Caregiver Program (1992 to 2014), the Caring for Children and Caring for People with High Medical Needs pilots (2014 to 2019), the Interim Pathway for Caregivers (4 March 4 to 8 July 2019), the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots (starting 18 June 2019 - 18 June 2024), and the new proposed program. Top...

Eoin Logan is a lawyer at Meridian Law Group. Fifty percent of his practice is suing immigration consultants and lawyers for professional negligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A discussion of the Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers program, a program which provides ppen work permit for vulnerable foreign workers who are victims of abuse. We also discuss access to justice issues. Jonathan Braun and Amanda Aziz are lawyers who work at the Migrant Workers Centre , an organization in Vancouver that promotes and advances access to justice for migrant workers by providing...