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http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/411/SOCI/17EVB-49555-E.HTM
关于要用新标准重新审理227案件的讲话在接近末尾部分。
Senator Callbeck: Welcome, minister, and thank you for appearing. I want to ask about the Federal Skilled Worker Program and the backlog. The 300,000 applications that came in before February 27, 2008, will be sent back. Were any estimates made on how much it would have cost to bring in the resources to deal with these applicants?
Mr. Kenney: First, to make a correction, it is 100,000 applications, representing 300,000 individuals.
To answer your question, yes, we know the resources that would be required to bring them in. If we were to bring them all in at once, this would mean moving our immigration plan from about 260,000 permanent residents to about 560,000. That would be unlikely to meet public support.
Alternatively, we could continue with caps on new applications over the next few years and seek to process the 100,000 in the Federal Skilled Worker Program backlog. However, we believe, based on current levels, that it would take us until about 2017 or 2018 to admit all those people and eliminate the backlog. The cost would be static, whatever our operational costs currently are.
Senator Callbeck: It certainly does not seem fair that people have applied and have been on the waiting list for years, and now they will get their applications back. I know they are getting their fee back, but they have been waiting for years.
What about the people who are on that list from March 1, 2008? Will they be judged under the new criteria of this Federal Skilled Worker Program?
Mr. Kenney: Yes. It is our intention to apply the new criteria, which we intend to develop this year, to those who are in the backlog in the inventory. For example, I intend to pre-publish this June a new points grid for the Federal Skilled Worker Program that would then come into effect later in the year, and it would be our intention to assess applicants who remain in the backlog against those new criteria that we think are more pertinent, which better assess the likelihood of people succeeding in the Canadian economy.
In terms of fairness, I would reiterate our view that it has been unfair to have all our skilled worker applicants waiting in the queue for seven or eight years. I do not want to be too partisan about this, but this is not a problem that developed in the last five years. When the current government came to office, we inherited a backlog in the immigration system of 840,000 people waiting for years to come to Canada. We are trying to move beyond that, as other developed countries have, so we can attract people more quickly with a higher ratio of their having jobs already lined up so that they have higher levels of employment and income.
Senator Callbeck: The new criteria for the Federal Skilled Worker Program has not been established yet.
Mr. Kenney: No, although we have been very transparent. We have had widespread consultations. While we have not published it, I can tell you it is our intention to raise the points allocated to younger workers, essentially, to focus more on younger applicants, higher levels of language proficiency for those hoping to come into regulated professions, higher points for people with pre-arranged employment, and higher points for people with Canadian as opposed to foreign work experience. We also intend to create a new skilled trades stream that will facilitate the admission into Canada of people who can work in skilled trades rather than just professions.
Senator Callbeck: Can the 300,000 that are getting their applications back after they have waited for years reapply under the new criteria?
Mr. Kenney: Yes.
Senator Callbeck: Will they be fast-tracked?
Mr. Kenney: No, with a qualifier. If any of them can obtain an offer of employment with a Canadian employer, they can go to the front of the line right now, and they can in the new system as well.
Senator Callbeck: Anyone can go to the front of the line?
Mr. Kenney: Anyone who has a credible offer of employment right now. We limit the number of new applications currently to the Federal Skilled Worker Program to only 10,000 per year as part of our backlog reduction strategy. The exception is that people can get into that fast-track program to be admitted in less than a year if they have pre-arranged employment.
Senator Callbeck: With respect to the temporary economic classes that the minister will have the authority to establish, you said the classes would be temporary up to five years, but my understanding is that those classes can be changed within that five years. Is that right?
Mr. Linklater: Essentially, the minister would have the authority under these proposed amendments to establish pilot projects, as you say, for up to five years. If during the course of those five years we find we have a resounding success, something we would want to make permanent based on data and evaluation findings, we can move to regulate that class permanently as part of the regulations under the act.
Conversely, if we find that a pilot is being tested and is not having the desired outcomes, the minister can cancel it through a new ministerial instruction.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/411/SOCI/17EVB-49555-E.HTM
关于要用新标准重新审理227案件的讲话在接近末尾部分。
Senator Callbeck: Welcome, minister, and thank you for appearing. I want to ask about the Federal Skilled Worker Program and the backlog. The 300,000 applications that came in before February 27, 2008, will be sent back. Were any estimates made on how much it would have cost to bring in the resources to deal with these applicants?
Mr. Kenney: First, to make a correction, it is 100,000 applications, representing 300,000 individuals.
To answer your question, yes, we know the resources that would be required to bring them in. If we were to bring them all in at once, this would mean moving our immigration plan from about 260,000 permanent residents to about 560,000. That would be unlikely to meet public support.
Alternatively, we could continue with caps on new applications over the next few years and seek to process the 100,000 in the Federal Skilled Worker Program backlog. However, we believe, based on current levels, that it would take us until about 2017 or 2018 to admit all those people and eliminate the backlog. The cost would be static, whatever our operational costs currently are.
Senator Callbeck: It certainly does not seem fair that people have applied and have been on the waiting list for years, and now they will get their applications back. I know they are getting their fee back, but they have been waiting for years.
What about the people who are on that list from March 1, 2008? Will they be judged under the new criteria of this Federal Skilled Worker Program?
Mr. Kenney: Yes. It is our intention to apply the new criteria, which we intend to develop this year, to those who are in the backlog in the inventory. For example, I intend to pre-publish this June a new points grid for the Federal Skilled Worker Program that would then come into effect later in the year, and it would be our intention to assess applicants who remain in the backlog against those new criteria that we think are more pertinent, which better assess the likelihood of people succeeding in the Canadian economy.
In terms of fairness, I would reiterate our view that it has been unfair to have all our skilled worker applicants waiting in the queue for seven or eight years. I do not want to be too partisan about this, but this is not a problem that developed in the last five years. When the current government came to office, we inherited a backlog in the immigration system of 840,000 people waiting for years to come to Canada. We are trying to move beyond that, as other developed countries have, so we can attract people more quickly with a higher ratio of their having jobs already lined up so that they have higher levels of employment and income.
Senator Callbeck: The new criteria for the Federal Skilled Worker Program has not been established yet.
Mr. Kenney: No, although we have been very transparent. We have had widespread consultations. While we have not published it, I can tell you it is our intention to raise the points allocated to younger workers, essentially, to focus more on younger applicants, higher levels of language proficiency for those hoping to come into regulated professions, higher points for people with pre-arranged employment, and higher points for people with Canadian as opposed to foreign work experience. We also intend to create a new skilled trades stream that will facilitate the admission into Canada of people who can work in skilled trades rather than just professions.
Senator Callbeck: Can the 300,000 that are getting their applications back after they have waited for years reapply under the new criteria?
Mr. Kenney: Yes.
Senator Callbeck: Will they be fast-tracked?
Mr. Kenney: No, with a qualifier. If any of them can obtain an offer of employment with a Canadian employer, they can go to the front of the line right now, and they can in the new system as well.
Senator Callbeck: Anyone can go to the front of the line?
Mr. Kenney: Anyone who has a credible offer of employment right now. We limit the number of new applications currently to the Federal Skilled Worker Program to only 10,000 per year as part of our backlog reduction strategy. The exception is that people can get into that fast-track program to be admitted in less than a year if they have pre-arranged employment.
Senator Callbeck: With respect to the temporary economic classes that the minister will have the authority to establish, you said the classes would be temporary up to five years, but my understanding is that those classes can be changed within that five years. Is that right?
Mr. Linklater: Essentially, the minister would have the authority under these proposed amendments to establish pilot projects, as you say, for up to five years. If during the course of those five years we find we have a resounding success, something we would want to make permanent based on data and evaluation findings, we can move to regulate that class permanently as part of the regulations under the act.
Conversely, if we find that a pilot is being tested and is not having the desired outcomes, the minister can cancel it through a new ministerial instruction.
