Thank you very much, Madam Speaker.
All right, then; I will read into the record the pieces that are still missing.
This was my question to officials:
Is the minister still exercising his authority to bring in special procedures secretly?
This was in reference to Afghan processing. I indicated that I was being very specific:
I'm not talking about general immigration measures. There are some specific actions that the ministry is taking that are not made public. People do not know what those specific actions might be, what it would look like or whom it would apply to. Is that still being done by the ministry right now?
I would like to get a response, then, from the minister or from the department with respect to that. That's a request that I've made and have not received a response on.
The other piece I asked for reads as follows:
Ms. Campbell Jarvis told us at committee that there is an IRCC playbook used as a level of oversight for bias in IRCC. Could the officials table this playbook and also provide documentation or information on how it is being used by officials?
That has not yet been received.
There was another document:
To what extent has IRCC processed the emails that Afghans were directed to send to the government? In other words, how many of those emails have received a response from IRCC, and how many are being processed? By response, I don't mean the automatic response they get.
I also asked this:
Perhaps I can get the officials to send those numbers in....If I can get in detail for the committee the numbers [of] how many applications have been processed, how many of them have been completed, and how many of them are still waiting for completion, I would appreciate it.
That has not yet been received.
I continued:
What about the applications for people who are not interpreters or collaborators, which is to say those who may have family members who are here in Canada and who have connections that way? If any of those are being processed at all, how many...?
I asked:
If I could get those specific numbers, not “half”—
which was the response I got,
—but exact numbers and under which category, that would be appreciated. Perhaps [that] could be submitted to the committee then.
That has not yet been received.
I asked this as well:
Could the officials provide a breakdown of that representation right now, so that we have a baseline on which to evaluate the outcome of this work?
I asked if we could get the baseline number so we could evaluate the progress, and further to that, if interim progress reports would be put on the public record. I have not received a response.
If you're wondering, Madam Chair, what I'm referring to in terms of that representation, it's referring to equitable representation amongst staff at IRCC, both agents and among medium and upper management positions. One of the key issues is to actually have a baseline of evaluation so that we know where things are. If there's going to be improvement or changes down the road, we need to be able to see it. I have not received that data, or the committee has not.
I asked for other information:
If you can table for the committee, then, the timelines of when that further study will be done and the mandate for those studies, I would appreciate [it].
That is in reference to independent studies. Ms. Caroline Xavier had explained to the committee that “further independent studies” were being planned on this strategy. I would like to know the timeline with respect to that. I have not yet received a response to those questions.
The other issue is that I have asked officials to provide the pathways to the committee. The pathways are in reference to a question around Afghans and other racialized minorities that are in Ukraine. As it stands right now, as far as we can tell, the immigration measures do not apply to them. The special Ukraine immigration measures do not apply to them. I asked this question, and Ms. Caroline Xavier responded that “the options and pathways exist for them to be able to indicate that, and we would be able to assist them”. I was asking what pathways, and for the officials to table that. I have not yet received that information.
Those are all of the undertakings that.... Sorry, there's one more. There's one last piece that is missing. It asks for the work being done by the department to coordinate and facilitate the generosity of Canadians who wish to help Ukrainians arriving in Canada. I was asking for information with respect to that, and we have not yet received it.
Those are all the undertakings that are still to be provided to the committee, Madam Chair.