#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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Sep 202554min
#181 - Fifty Year Processing Time
Steven and Deanna analyze the IRCC Minister’s Transition Binder (May 2025) and its implications for processing times, including extraordinary ranges for several programs. The discussion addresses pote...
22 Sep 202551min
#180 - Collapsing Numbers
Steven and Deanna break down the collapse in internaitonal student arrivals in 2025 and plumetting approval rates across nearly all programs. .2:14 2025 stats: what the data says4:01 Cap vs. collapse ...
16 Sep 202550min
#179 - Abolish the Foreign Worker Program?
Steve and Deanna break down the latest political heat on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. What is the TFWP? Will Direct Apply meaningfully fix it? Timestamps1:40 Today’s focus: abolish/reform the...
8 Sep 202554min
