027: Who knew Canadian Passports could be so interesting with Les Morley

CIP S1 E27 | Les Morley | Show Notes

http://www.canadianimmigrationpodcast.com

Les is an immigration lawyer practicing in Kingston, Ontario. Since 1988, he has helped people from more than 100 countries immigrate to or remain in Canada. He has reunited families, guided students and workers through the process of obtaining papers, and represented everyday people who face admissibility challenges and barriers to citizenship.

Les is a part of a small group of people that applied for and obtained a Refugee Assistance Program facility in Kingston.  He is the only immigration lawyer in his one-horse town, and so he tends to get involved in a lot of the immigration-related projects in town. Similar to Lethbridge where I practice.

Also, this year he has hosted a few episode of a local cable show on COGECOTV (Kingston)

 called DiverseCity.  Here are links to a few of the episodes, in case there is any value in knowing about them:

Fresh Start for Refugees Frontenac Refugee Support Group Kingston Grandmother Connection

Question: How did you get into Immigration?

Introduce topic. Les wrote a great paper on Passports for our past CBA National Conference.

Get e-mails from Federal Court as a list of links to the decisions and les started seeing a trend related to the evolving area of passport law.

Historical evolution of Passports (4:15) Cases that came out regarding Passports: People not being able to have a passport Shut down and couldn’t get passport New development using passports going out of the country. New Bill introduced by Honourable Ralph Goodale

The best way to reach Les Morley:

Morley Law Office: http://www.lesmorley.com/ LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2afgui3 Canada’s amazing passports: http://bit.ly/2adRbOn Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s Bill: “An Act to amend the Customs Act”: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ralph-goodale-canada-us-bill-1.3635990