#114 - Are Immigration Policies Hurting Canada's Economy, with Mikal Skuterud
Mikal Skuterud is a Professor at the University of Waterloo. We discuss the impact of immigration on housing prices, foreign workers, lumping Francophone migration objectives under economic immigratio...
11 Jun 202455min
#113 - Improving Judicial Review, with Cheryl Robinson
Canada's Federal Court is conducting a review of its rules. We discuss some of the proposals, which include letting consultants do judicial review, an upcomming pilot project to simplify judicial revi...
5 Jun 202448min
#112 - Sex Work, Only Fans and Canadian Immigration
Frances Mahon is a criminal defense lawyer in Vancouver at Pender Litigation. Connie Campbell is an immigration lawyer at Edelmann & Co. We discuss the law of prostitution / sex worker in Canada in th...
28 Mai 20241h 4min
#111 - Security Screening Delays and Chinese Espionage Allegations, with Lev Abramovich
Lev Abramovich is a Canadian immigration lawyer in Toronto. We discuss ongoing security screening delays at IRCC, particularly for Chinese and Iranian nationals, mandamus applications, the expanded de...
21 Mai 20241h 2min
#110 - A Former Visa Officer on Locally Engaged Staff and Reconsideration Requests, with Martin Levine
Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments. He previ...
14 Mai 20241h 2min
#109 - DUIs and Dangerous Driving, with Kyle Lee
Kyla Lee is a criminal defense lawyer at Acumen Law and the host of the Driving Law podcast. In this episode Kyla answers dozens of questions about common driving offenses, including impaired driving ...
8 Mai 202451min
History Episode 1 - Banning Black People Because Canada is Cold, Order in Council PC 1911-1324 [Repost]
This episode is a historical deep dive on Order in Council PC 1911-1324, an Order in Council from 1911 which stated that for a period of one year black people would not be permitted to immigrate in Ca...
3 Mai 20241h 51min
#108 - A Former Visa Officer on The Culture at IRCC, AI, and Obstacles to Change, with Martin Levine
Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments.This epis...
30 Apr 20241h 21min
