Citizenship and Immigration committee  The information about work permits?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is a good question to put to the provinces. I wouldn't speculate. I would say that the condition that was placed on the Canada social transfer is a federal condition. It's a condition that's built into the federal act that we're talking about, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal A

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not on behalf of the provinces I'm not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We haven't had any indications from any provinces that they are looking to implement such a measure, no.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't believe the United States provides either financial assistance or in-kind services. In the U.K. my understanding is that there is some in-kind support provided, though not access to the same kinds of financial benefits that other residents of the U.K. are accorded.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Canadian system as we know it now? Or the Canadian system that could hypothetically be implemented by the provinces?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Currently in Canada all provinces and territories are providing social benefits in the form of financial assistance to refugee claimants immediately upon application, so that's different from the United States and different from the U.K. In the United States, my understanding is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the future, if provinces were to have these minimum criteria, they would be, for that period of time, depending on what period of time they put in, more comparable to some of those other jurisdictions. Again, depending on what kinds of in-kind services they might provide, real

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In respect of providing direct and immediate access, my understanding is that it compares very favourably, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd give the same answer I gave to the member opposite. I'm obviously not going to disclose the legal advice that we might have received. We do get legal advice when we are planning or preparing any measures, and the government would not be proposing measures that were found not

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will consult a colleague, because I'm not working directly in the refugee area, but I believe the answer is that they cannot get a work permit immediately on arriving in Canada. Resettled refugees come as permanent residents, and I believe that means they can obtain a work perm

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We might be able to go back to your earlier question, if you don't mind.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd have to look that up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That falls into the category of some of the considerations that the provinces, if they wanted to bring in these kinds of measures...the kind of social benefit regime they'd want to look at is what kinds of services are provided to residents or persons who are in their jurisdictio