Chinook: Efficiency vs. fairness in Canadian immigration decisions

By Robert Steinman and Naomi-Edith Barandereka (March 23, 2023, 1:53 PM EDT) -- When, in early 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) admitted to using a new tool called “Chinook” to assist in the processing of temporary resident applications, crucial and complicated questions began to be asked about the balance between the ability to process a greater number of immigration applications on one hand and transparency and fairness to the individuals filing those applications on the other....