Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a challenging question for a public servant to answer. Specifically, I can respond that it is correct that the overall settlement funding envelope did increase very dramatically from about $200 million to $600 million between 2005 and 2006. That's not counting the settleme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Again, we could provide the committee with the exact figure, but it's that order of scale.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's about a year for the most recently received applications, that is, applications that weren't part of the old inventory. The numbers on the table here combine all applications and the ones being finalized in 2012, and some of them are parts of the old inventory. So going forw

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I fully understood your first question. Unfortunately, we don't have an expert on settlement programs with us today. The budgetary envelope for settlement programs for this fiscal year is about $900 million. We have specialized programs in all regions of Canada to m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Almost the whole amount.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a small number of occupations that are not open for application in the Canadian experience class for 2014. Those may change in the future. Those occupations were closed because we had a largely disproportionate number of those specific occupations in the case inventory

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that's okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were two primary tools. One was the elimination of old applications in the federal skilled worker program, which, of course, is very unfortunate for the particular affected individuals but was a decision that the government took to situate the program going forward so that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I'm not sure I can share your figure there, sir, I'm looking at--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the average is around 60,000, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Looking at slide 11, we can see that the family class in 2012 brings in around 64,000 individuals.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There has been an increase in the last couple of years, last year and this year, because of the accumulated backlog in the parent and grandparent portion of the family class. The government significantly increased the planning range for that program. While new applications so tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the current backlog in the federal skilled worker program, sir, is in the order of scale of 65,000 or 70,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can't know for sure, sir. There are 5,000 applications, so it will probably be approximately 10,000 or 11,000 individuals. Because the program has been closed for new applications for some time, combined with the fact that the criteria for sponsoring parents and grandparents w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the number of applications terminated, I don't have the exact figure with me, but it was approximately 300,000 individuals in the federal skilled worker program. I don't think I can provide an answer to a question like how many applications have been delayed, because I don't