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Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm the manager of economic and social services under the settlement program.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Mr. Orr. To build on Mr. Orr's comments, CIC does offer online information and in-person services as well. As part of the online services, we have, of course, our flagship project, “Welcome to Canada”, which is available online to all immigrants to Canada, including pre-arrival.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee If I could add to this as well, we can't avoid mentioning the publications that are also produced by the service provider organizations that the settlement program funds at CIC. Communities that are located within the immigrant communities do produce their own publications that are targeted, depending on the cultures that are present and they're serving.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's 75,000 in English that have been published and 17,000 in French. These are distributed. Every new family gets a copy at arrival. They also are distributed in four major airports in the country as well as in over 200 service provider organizations, members of Parliament offices, as you know, schools, and other organizations in the community.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would start by saying that the federal investment in settlement programming outside of Quebec has almost tripled from less than $200 million in 2005-06 to its current level of almost $600 million for 2013-14, which is a tripling of the amount, and actually having a peak of $650 million in 2010-11.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'll take that one. I think it's about continuing to engage and to work with our service provider organizations, SPOs, that are currently very active in these activities. The settlement program actually does have as part of its funding priorities services dedicated to the needs of immigrant women in all immigration categories.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can answer that question. We actually have a program formula. According to this formula, we calculate the average of arrivals in every province over a three-year period. We give additional weight for the number of refugees each province receives.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, on arrivals, not on secondary moves.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, we can forward it to you.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think what was mentioned earlier—
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, but I think the message was out because it was a reference to a specific passage in “Welcome to Canada”, but also “Welcome to Canada” has a large section on familiarization with Canadian laws and all the other things that are not tolerated, such as cultural adaptations for immigrant women, seniors, youths, family dynamics, even parenting in Canada.
February 26th, 2014Committee meeting
Ryhan Mansour