#128 - An Interview with Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2008-2012
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#128 - An Interview with Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2008-2012

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.

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