Finance committee  The actual amendment is an exemption to the User Fees Act, so it's not about the fee increase, necessarily. It's about getting an exemption to the User Fees Act so that we can go through the regulatory process to change the fees.

Finance committee  The fee level has not been determined yet. It's going to be determined through the regulatory process.

Finance committee  To process the actual application for citizenship?

Finance committee  It's around $550.

Finance committee  The fee is $200.

Finance committee  Exactly.

Finance committee  You are correct.

Finance committee  As my colleague mentioned, there was some funding announced in budget 2013 that will allow us to make more decisions, but you're correct in the fact that the revenues from the fees are deposited into the consolidated revenue fund.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The reason we want an increase in the fee is because we want to shift the burden from the taxpayers to the users of the service. Currently the cost of processing the application is significantly subsidized by Canadian taxpayers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All the departments are required to report in their departmental performance report on a yearly basis. There is a schedule, a table, on the user fees, where we need to outline the total costs by business line and the total revenues that we're generating. This information is publi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since we are here to discuss division 10, on citizenship, I have the comparison for citizenship, if it's of interest for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For Australia, the fee is around $275. In New Zealand, it's $385, approximately. The fee in the United Kingdom is around $1,500. In the United States, it's approximately $675. Those are all in Canadian dollars.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the United Kingdom is $1,500.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me. I can tell you, based on the trends, that the cost went up, but I don't have that information for 1995.