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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 8
 
Thursday, November 3, 2011
 

The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration met in a in camera session at 11:02 a.m. this day, in Room 237-C, Centre Block, the Chair, David Tilson, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Paulina Ayala, Don Davies, Rick Dykstra, Roxanne James, Matthew Kellway, Kevin Lamoureux, Chungsen Leung, Costas Menegakis, Ted Opitz, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, David Tilson and John Weston.

 

Acting Members present: Sean Casey for Kevin Lamoureux.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Julie Béchard, Analyst; Sandra Elgersma, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Canadian Migration Institute: Nigel Thomson, Member, Board of Directors. Desjardins Trust Inc.: Marc Audet, Vice-Chair, Immigrant Investor Program. HSBC Trust Company: Daniel Perron, Director and Business Head, Global Investor Immigration Services. LEGIT Vancouver: Christine Morrissey, Co-founder.

 
The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.
 

At 11:17 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 11:22 a.m., the sitting resumed in a televised session.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Thursday, September 29, 2011, the Committee resumed its study of the immigration application backlogs in light of the Action Plan for Faster Immigration.
 

Nigel Thomson made a statement.

 

At 11:33 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:17 p.m., the sitting resumed.

 

Marc Audet, Daniel Perron and Christine Morrissey made statements and, with Nigel Thomson, answered questions.

 

At 12:30 p.m., Don Davies took the Chair.

 

At 1:02 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Julie Lalande Prud'homme
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2011/11/03 3:54 p.m.