Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Oct. 3rd, 2017

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

Right now our vacancy I think is 23.

Do we have 23 vacancies right now?

[Greg Kipling, Director General, Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs Branch, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada]

It's more than 23 vacancies.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

In which category?

[Greg Kipling]

That is for the RAD specifically.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Can you provide all of the vacancies, by appointment, to the committee? That's just because I'm running out of time.

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

We could, absolutely.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Since January 2017, of the asylum claims made by people entering into Canada at non-official points of entry, how many have been completely processed by the IRB?

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

Your question is on how many the response team has dealt with to date.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Yes, how many have been completely processed?

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

We have about 300 finalizations.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Okay, out of 13,000, there are 300—

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

We expect to do 1,500 through the response team by the end of November.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Of those 300, how many have been granted protected status?

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

The acceptance rate is in the mid-to-high 50% range.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Of the people who have been rejected, how many have been deported?

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

I wouldn't have that information. Our responsibility is only for the decision and whether somebody meets the convention status.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Does IRCC have that?

[Paul MacKinnon]

That would be CBSA, but we could follow up on that.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Rob Oliphant]

You have three seconds.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

I guess I will finish.

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Rob Oliphant]

Thank you.

Ms. Kwan.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you to all of our officials for their presentations.

My first question is for the IRB.

The last time that IRB came before us, there were huge issues of resources, or the lack of resources, shall we say, to the point where the IRB was seeing 1,000 cases per month added to the backlog.

Since that time, can you advise how much has been provided to the IRB to deal with the current situation?

[Shereen Benzvy Miller]

Can you just clarify for me, since what time? What is the date we're talking about?

I actually don't know a time when we were adding 8,000 per month—

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

It was 1,000 per month.