The clock for me starts now.
Thank you to the minister and to his staff. I have a list of questions, and so I think for expediency purposes I'm going to ask these questions, and maybe while the minister is answering the first ones, staff could look for information for the others.
First, how much funding is allocated for each individual GAR? Is there a breakdown of how the total number of GAR funding has been distributed by province?
When did the NGOs request the resettlement funding from the government for the Syrian refugee national project? When did they get the resettlement services funding from the government, across the country?
How much was spent, if any, on the renovations of the military bases, or was it just money held in contingency? How much was spent on the temporary shelters, broken down by month and by province?
How many IRCC staff, broken down by FTEs and dollar amount, are allocated to the Syrian refugee initiative?
As well, I'm interested in knowing how much funding has been allocated or used for primary health screening of Syrian refugees, and how much the government provides for individual primary health screening.
On the language question, can the minister confirm that the funding for the LINC program is being reduced by 3% to 8% this year, after a 7% cut?
Also, in the Lower Mainland in B.C. we have an early years refugee program, which provides for early childhood development and family support services to refugee families. With this Syrian refugee crisis, the workload has more than doubled, yet their funding has been reduced by 6%. I wonder whether the minister would be able to rectify this with the funding availability he has talked about.
I'll leave that there and group these questions into the Syrian file for now.