Evidence of meeting #13 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was board.
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
It was less than that, I believe.
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Liberal
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
No. I thought you said 70%.
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Conservative
Rick Dykstra Conservative St. Catharines, ON
You can't change your numbers, Jim, when you're asking a question.
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Can you give me one moment, sir?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
While we're waiting, Mr. Goodman's correct; you are in order with your questioning, but I thought we were here to talk about the bill.
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Liberal
Jim Karygiannis Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt, ON
We were discussing the bill, Chair.
Do you want to stop the clock? If you want to take a point of order, stop the clock, please.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Alice Wong Conservative Richmond, BC
Yes, because if Mr. Goodman is to provide any figures after today, they should be provided to the clerk so that all of us will have access to them.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
Oh, of course. I think Mr. Goodman understands that.
Thank you, Mr. Karygiannis. You have the floor again.
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Do you want an answer to your question, sir?
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
The figures that I have now in front of me suggest that the actual complement in 2006-07 was 123. This is for both the RPD and the IAD together, because we had backlogs in both. It's important to understand that. The numbers were 169.5; well, to have 0.5 of a member, but....
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Anyway, in 2005-06 it went down to 123, and to 101 in 2007-08, and it was down to 62.4% in 2007-08 from 80.3% in 2006-07.
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Liberal
Jim Karygiannis Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt, ON
So if you were at 80% staffing, sir, then the 87,000 people who have applied between 2006 and 2008, you would have been able to deal with.
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Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Of course, because we're funded for 25,000 claims a year. We were getting many, many more than that.