Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may just say here that over the last decade or so, we've had the highest sustained rate of immigration to Canada in our history. In that timeframe many more new immigrants have come to Canada. Canada continues to have a high interest in making new immigrants Canadian citizen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's volume, the number of people in the process. We are funded to a particular base level. We have increased our capacity to process more cases by injecting fee-based money, which is money from within the department which we internally reallocate to help maintain and not increas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sure we could provide that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Menegakis. I think we're here today to discuss the issues of citizenship and the refugee appeal division, so I'm not able to answer your particular question. I'm not the right official.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We didn't come prepared to discuss those particular issues today. We were focusing on the RAD effects and the citizenship issues.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The refugee appeal division, and the citizenship issues related to the User Fees Act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We understood we would be coming to discuss the issues related to the changes in the User Fees Act as they relate to the citizenship program, and also the issues in the bill related to the refugee appeal division.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's our pleasure to be here this morning to answer your questions related to these particular clauses of the budget implementation bill. My name is Caroline Melis and I am the director general of operational management and coordination at CI

Public Safety committee  It applies only to security certificates. There are five or six other cases that the Canada Border Services Agency discussed, but there are not many cases that were subject to electronic monitoring.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  As long as they have a valid status when they applied for their extension of stay—so the person applied for their extension of stay and for whatever reason it was turned down—they're still in that valid status until it expires, even though they have a letter that says their other

Public Safety committee  The only things I can think of would be in relation to serious criminality cases.

Public Safety committee  Sorry. The only concern would be in relation to criminality cases. Once you're going into enforcement, then you're referring them to the partner to deal with the enforcement issue.