Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think that was quite a question, but I'd only add that the kind of nuance we see is, for example, the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador needing nurses in outports and setting up individual relationships with nursing training institutes in southern India, and going to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't believe so. I don't think, to my knowledge, at least since my taking up this post, that we've tended to see specific numerical requests from the provinces, although I'll ask Natasha if she hears differently. Generally, it's just more, and therefore the challenge to th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're certainly making efforts to fulfill that commitment. It has certainly been a challenging one to date, given the nature of migratory flows globally, where we don't have that many large-source countries where there are a large number of francophones. Certainly at events suc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Like all of Canada's immigration programs, we certainly hope and encourage immigrants to become Canadian citizens. Historically, for many years, and it's a trend we're happy to see continuing and even improving, a very high percentage of Canadian immigrants—I believe it is in the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's always a challenge to ask a public official to give you the essence of a program. When I'm in multilateral fora talking about Canadian immigration policy, what we tend to find ourselves saying about the provincial nominee program is that, given its focus on successful econom

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not to my knowledge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The allocations will be largely dependent on the overall level framework, as determined by the Government of Canada. As I say, there's no indication that Manitoba's allocation would be reduced, that I know of. With regard to the accumulation of backlogs or inventories that my co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, at this time it's done on an annual basis. But we are beginning the process of the multi-year planning my colleague referred to. I think it's foreseeable, if that process is successful, that in the future provinces may have a three-year planning horizon.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I referred to the reports of the provincial auditors general on individual provincial nominee programs. In addition, the Auditor General of Canada made reference to the provincial nominee program as a whole in the report of 2009, I believe.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it's slightly indirect. In other words, the federal government's funding formula for settlement is based on the number of arrivals, with an adjustment with regard to refugees because of the higher settlement needs of refugees. There's a slightly different per-head allocation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Today is Thursday?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of course, the issuance of certificates to the committee has to go through the department's approval process to make sure it's accurate. We believe the information that's been requested so far is relatively easy to obtain statistically, so the process of doing that won't be lengt

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we can get it to the clerk well before January, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Issued by the Province of Manitoba?