#233 - China, Espionage and Canadian Immigration Law: How Far Is Too Far?, with Joanna Chiu
How should Canada respond to concerns about Chinese espionage and foreign interference without treating every connection to China as a national security threat? Joanna Chiu, journalist, author of Chin...
29 Sep 59min
#232 - Firing Foreign Workers: Immigration Status, Severance & Employment Law
What happens when a foreign worker loses their authorization to work in Canada? Can an employer put them on unpaid leave? Lay them off? Terminate them? And what happens to severance when a worker’s im...
22 Sep 53min
#231 - Trump, the Canada–U.S. Border and the Future of U.S. Immigration, with Andrew Hayes
What has actually changed at the Canada–U.S. border under the second Trump administration, and what is just noise?U.S. immigration lawyer Andrew Hayes joins to discuss the state of U.S. immigration la...
14 Sep 59min
#230 - Becoming a Francophone, with Alyanna Chua
Canada wants more Francophone immigrants. But what happens when people who have already built their lives in Canada suddenly discover that learning French may be their best, or only, pathway to perman...
8 Sep 58min
#229 - What Counts as Unauthorized Work in Canada? Plus Free Trade Work Permits
What actually counts as “work” under Canadian immigration law? The answer is much broader than simply receiving a paycheque.We discuss a recent Federal Court decision involving unauthorized work and t...
1 Sep 35min
#228 - How Express Entry Went Off the Rails, with Steven Paolasini
Canada’s Express Entry system was designed to rank skilled immigrants predictably and select those most likely to succeed economically. Has it instead become an unpredictable collection of category-ba...
25 Aug 51min
#227 - LMIA Exemption Code C-20, “Papers Please” and IRGC Conscripts
We discuss three recent developments:IRCC’s abrupt addition and removal of new requirements for C20 reciprocal-employment work permits;CBSA officers checking the immigration status of participants at ...
18 Aug 45min
#226 - Can Parliament Block Judicial Review? With Paul Daly and Sujit Choudhry
Can Parliament prevent courts from reviewing the decisions of administrative tribunals?In this episode, we discuss the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in Democracy Watch v. Canada (Attorne...
11 Aug 54min
