Angry millionaires suing over Canadian citizenship another symptom of ailing immigration system, critics claim
Canada's reputation as an attractive destination for immigrants is being tarnished.
That's according to Toronto-based immigration lawyer Michael Niren, in respect to some very angry foreign millionaires.
"The world has regarded Canada as a country that is fair in terms of its administration of justice and the way they treat immigrants awaiting their cases," he said in an email exchange with Yahoo Canada News.
"But the way this government has mismanaged immigration policy has no doubt raised questions about its ability to treat applicants fairly who deserve procedural fairness when submitting applications for immigration. They have been and continue to be let down by the government and even the courts."
Niren is referring to a the case initiated by a group of wealthy foreign nationals who had their day in court this week, over the cancellation of the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).
Canada's IIP — one of many in the western world — used to offer 2,500 visas a year to affluent foreign nationals who invested $800,000 into the Canadian government coffers for a period of five years.
In 2012, thanks to excessive backlogs, Citizenship and Immigration Canada instituted a moratorium on the program. And then, as part of budget 2014, the Tories cancelled the popular immigration scheme with the intention of throwing-out the 19,000 applications left in the queue.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/foreign-millionaires-day-court-over-canada-closure-popular-200423745.html
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