#189 - The 2026–2028 Levels Plan: Behind the Numbers
Canada’s new 2026–2028 Immigration Levels Plan is here, and it’s a lot more confusing than media headlines suggest.This episode unpacks how the Carney government has quietly layered “one-time initiati...
17 Marras 202555min
#188 - Retired CSIS Analyst Phil Gurski on Immigration Security Screening
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. He previous worked as a senior strategic analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.We discuss CSIS's role i...
10 Marras 20251h 11min
#187 - IRCC is Watching
Deanna, Sadaf Kashfi and Caroline Senini discuss your rights and obligations at the border, the intersection of immigration and criminal law, unreasonable search and seizure, mandatory minimum sentenc...
3 Marras 202547min
#186 - Retired IRCC Program Manager, Greg Chubak
Greg Chubak retired from IRCC in 2022. He was posted to South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore and the program manager in Hungary, Malaysia, Seattle, Sri Lanka and Austria. We discuss what programs hav...
27 Loka 20251h 3min
#185 - Lorne Waldman: Landmark Cases to Today's Immigration Crisis
Lorne Waldman, one of Canada’s most recognized immigration litigators, joins to discuss some of his most landmark cases, today’s processing and refugee backlogs, mandamus and where economic immigratio...
20 Loka 20251h 8min
#184 - Retired CBSA Chief of Enforcement & Intelligence Operations, Christian Lane
Christian Lane is a retired Canada Border Services Agency officer whose career included serving as a Border Services Officer, Inland Enforcement Officer, Manager of Immigration Detention Operations an...
14 Loka 20251h
#183 - Failing Afghanistan's Heroes
Cory Moore is a retired Canadian Forces military lawyer who served in Afghanistan. There, he helped develop the training of female Afghan lawyers who would go on to prosecute members of the Taliban. ...
7 Loka 20251h
#182 - Here to Stay
We speak with Daniel Bernhard of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship about understanding immigrant retention in Canada. The Paper comes at a time when immigration to Canada is declining, outflows a...
30 Syys 202554min
