Recently, at a media event organized in Vancouver, Jason Kenney, Minister, Immigration and Citizenship, was quoted as saying that he planned to cut down on the program involving family reunification. Earlier, his ministry had disclosed that there were a large number of bogus cases related to immigration even while Kenney preferred cutting down on the number of migrants into the nation, when they applied in a manner which left a bad taste.

It needs to be mentioned that the waiting time for Canada immigration is already nearly 13 years for many parents or grandparents. Besides, it would be a big loss for families in the country, in case the number of parents and children immigrating to the country is really cut down, even while it would be a powerful deterrent for the workers, who are skilled, to migrate to Canada in a situation where their families failed to join them.

Reportedly, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of children staying with a grandparent has headed north by 64% over the last years and touched the 6.7 million mark. It is well known that grandparents enjoy a special position in the lives of small children, and they shape up their future in an emphatic way.

They positively affect their children, and, over and over again, prove to be the ones who help connect their families with their cultural roots and beliefs. In view of all this, Minister Kenney, by proposing to make it tougher for grandparents to migrate to the country, was not doing something positive and right.