I may not recall every one of them.
The first question was what was the formula used to develop the new funding allocation for settlement services.
It's called the new settlement funding allocation formula. It was designed over the course of the past 18 months or so in consultation between our department and our provincial counterparts. The idea was to come up with a common national funding formula rather than arbitrarily set levels in each province.
The formula is based on the number of immigrants in each province and territory, giving additional weight for refugees, to account for their unique settlement needs. It includes a capacity-building amount for each jurisdiction, and it includes an amount set aside for the innovation fund. There's a lot more technical detail, and if you want, we can come back to it later.
All of that works out effectively to about $3,000 per immigrant funding, by 2012-13, in the nine provinces outside of Quebec. Quebec is a special case because of the Canada-Quebec immigration accord, of course. It was set aside as a separate case in 1992.
Was there any political involvement in these allocations?
No. Cabinet and I and the provincial ministers agreed on the funding formula, but then officials worked out exactly how it would be applied across the country. As I've indicated, it means an increase in funding in seven provinces and three territories, a decrease in Ontario, a nominal reduction in Nova Scotia, and a small reduction in British Columbia, because it has a smaller percentage of immigrants.
It's basically a reflection of the fact that immigrant settlement patterns have changed. Whereas 90% used to go to Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, now fewer than 75% are going to those three big cities, with the balance now going to essentially the Atlantic and prairie provinces. That's a good thing. We're getting better and more efficient distribution of newcomers across the country.
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