Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's pushing Canada's immigration system to soften its approach to processing visa applications and put less focus on the risk of visitors overstaying their short-term visas.
"The system -- I'll be honest -- is still based around, 'Prove to me that you won't stay if you come,' right?" he said, arguing that it is easier for applicants to "convince" immigration officials to grant them visas if they have "a good job and a home and a house and a good status back home.
"We have to stop saying 'Well, it would be a bad people, a bad thing, if these people were to choose to stay,"' Trudeau said. "Our immigration minister, Sean Fraser, is working very, very hard on trying to shift the way we look at immigration and make sure that we're bringing people in." Trudeau also said Ottawa has to do a better job helping immigrants thrive. Otherwise, he said, Canadians' warm feelings toward immigration could chill.
"There are solutions in this. Part of it is shifting the attitudes. Part of it is also just improving our ability to process using proper digital means and computer means." This week, the International Studies Association went public with its struggles to get visas for hundreds of people set to attend a Montreal conference next month.
While citizens of those countries don't need visitor visas to come to Canada, academics from many developing countries who are based in Paris or London do need a visa to attend a conference Canada.
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