Citizenship and Immigration committee  On slide 7, we've provided you with a copy of the immigration levels plan for 2011. This is what we're working toward this calendar year. We also talk a bit about the inadmissibility provisions under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, whereby all permanent immigrants are screened for health, criminality, and security.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Dawn has already spoken about citizenship, the process for which is outlined on slide 9. As for slide 10, the multiculturalism program was brought to CIC in a machinery change in 2008. As Dawn mentioned, we really see this as an extension of the immigration continuum, while understanding at the same time how multiculturalism reinforces the notions of citizenship and shared citizenship, which reflect all Canadians and not just immigrants and other newcomers to Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Turning to the permanent stream, and in particular the economic streams of immigration, we work very closely with provinces and territories on economic immigration. There are a number of streams and substreams, particularly the federal skilled worker program, the Canadian experience class, and business immigration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, end to end. Canada is also unique in that we allow citizens and permanent residents to sponsor parents and grandparents. Very few grandparents apply, but we now have a backlog of 165,000 parent and grandparent applications waiting to be processed. Within the levels planned, admissions in that category have historically been in the range of about 15,000 to 20,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just picking up on that, on slide 3 there are, as I mentioned, three broad streams for permanent migration. There are also three broad streams for admission to Canada: as a temporary resident, as a permanent resident, or as someone looking for Canada's protection. This slide gives an overview of the components of the temporary program, including temporary foreign workers, international students, and tourist, business visitors.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It is a pleasure for us to be here today, to give you an overview of our operations and provide some background on our activities and policies at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Our presentation contains 12 or so slides and will take 30 to 40 minutes.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  It's between $800 million and $900 million.

Official Languages committee  I think, Mr. Chair, it's important to understand which communities we're talking about when we say “official language minority community”--given that Edmonton and Vancouver have significant francophone populations, for example, to what degree funding is made available in those communities.

Official Languages committee  We can look at what we have in terms of the systems across the country. We have various arrangements by way of contribution agreements, grants, and that sort of thing, to the extent that we can identify contribution agreements for delivery of services in French.

Official Languages committee  Well, we will have to look at the detailed information that we have in Quebec. We won't be able to provide the information—

Official Languages committee  I believe we have details on the courses offered in either English or French.

Official Languages committee  Linguistic training, yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, they exist.

Official Languages committee  Okay.