Evidence of meeting #72 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was irb.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Right now our vacancy I think is 23.
Do we have 23 vacancies right now?
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Greg Kipling Director General, Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs Branch, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
It's more than 23 vacancies.
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Director General, Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs Branch, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
That is for the RAD specifically.
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Conservative
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.
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
We could, absolutely.
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Conservative
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?
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Your question is on how many the response team has dealt with to date.
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Conservative
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
We have about 300 finalizations.
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Conservative
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
We expect to do 1,500 through the response team by the end of November.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Of those 300, how many have been granted protected status?
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
The acceptance rate is in the mid-to-high 50% range.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Of the people who have been rejected, how many have been deported?
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
I wouldn't have that information. Our responsibility is only for the decision and whether somebody meets the convention status.
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Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Program Policy, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
That would be CBSA, but we could follow up on that.
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Conservative
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NDP
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?
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Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Protection Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
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—
