Citizenship and Immigration committee  We were provided advice by the Germans that we should expect very large families, 10 to 12 people, but our practical experience is that the individual nuclear families are quite small, two to three people. We're finding that many of the families want their extended family members

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We asked the UNHCR, when they were referring cases to us, to include the extended family to the extent they could so that we could have the entire group come to Canada together as opposed to coming in separate waves. That's being done. That's part of the numbers, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the 1,200, in my opening remarks I said that we received 1,383 individuals identified to us, and we're going to continue processing all of them. They will be arriving into 2018, over and above the 1,200. We took a targeted approach, as I said earlier as well, in what the ho

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the 2018 levels plan, there are 7,500 for government assisted but there is also 1,500 for the blended cases, so we're operating with a total for government-supported of 9,000. Our focus is on Africa and the Middle East, as it has been for a while.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. What we learned from the Syrian operation and applied here is, first, the pacing of arrivals so we can make sure that the communities where these people are being resettled are able to welcome them fully. Second, we instituted the changes I talked about earlier around provid

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's been key on a number of different levels for Yazda and Operation Ezra, as well as NGOs on the ground in northern Iraq, to provide us with their intelligence, their collaboration, and their information about how to make this a success. That has been really key to helping us s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have insight into the integration supports that people have been using, but keep in mind that for access to medical services, because the resettled refugees are permanent residents, their primary health care coverage is coming through the province where they've been resettled.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Through the interim federal health program, our translation services are paid for by the federal government. We arrange in the context of the services we're reimbursing that the translation service is available. Again, working with the community, and with what the local immigrati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've also provided funding so each community can hire a wellness coordinator and also more supports for individual hands-on supports for each of the families.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It came out of the $21.7 million that we already had set aside for this specific initiative. It hasn't been touched on from the other pocket of money we have for vote 10.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is additional dollars.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's true, that they were identified through other means, but I would have to—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There haven't been any cases of rejections. A few individuals have actually withdrawn their applications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They're not our employees because—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've relied on the International Organization for Migration overseas to bring in the right group of interpreters.