We’re cleaning up the Liberals’ immigration mess | An Immigration System strangling in red Tape

The duelling narratives on immigration and related policies, starting with Costas Menegakis, parliamentary secretary to CIC Minister Alexander:

In doing so, the Liberals will prove again that they are the party of missed opportunities and the same old group of do-nothing hypocrites who repeatedly slashed immigration levels, settlement funding and resources to tackle long wait times for newcomers. Our Conservative government will take no lessons from them on matters of immigration.

We’re cleaning up the Liberals’ immigration mess | iPolitics.

Followed by John McCullum the Liberal critic for CIC:

At a time when Canada competes with other countries for immigrants and visitors, speed is of the essence. On this score, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his former longtime Immigration minister, Jason Kenney, have failed miserably.

From visitors and skilled immigrants to non-economic immigrants and citizenship candidates, processing times have mushroomed on their watch, typically rising by 50 per cent to 100 per cent or more.

An immigration system strangling in red tape | iPolitics

My sense was that CIC officials largely favoured some of the “supply management” restrictions decided by the government given the backlogs and lengthy processing times, largely unmanageable.