Actually, Jennifer is an expert in refugee policy.
Remember, there are two kinds of refugees. There are government-assisted refugees and privately sponsored refugees. They're different categories. In terms of funding and the $900 million, there is funding for refugees in the same way there is funding for everybody else. Refugees, as you know, get more income support, so that money would be included in the $900 million. The first year, we provide income support as well as the official languages training and the other integration supports that exist for everybody else.
For those who are privately sponsored, remember that they go to the location where the sponsors are. If it's a group from Saint Boniface sponsoring a refugee, that family will come to Saint Boniface and must stay there as long as they are receiving money from the private sponsors. Once the private sponsor's commitment is finished, they can go wherever they want. They are permanent residents of Canada.
When we do government-sponsored refugees, we do not ask them where they want to go. The provinces give us targets. They say they want 2,000, 3,000, or whatever the number is. That number changed, au fur et à mesure, that we were bringing in the Syrian refugees last year. Quebec had a certain number. We brought in the number that Quebec wanted.
We do, very rarely, allow refugees to change their destination, but only in circumstances where, for instance, they have a close family member in Vancouver, say; we had not realized this at the time of processing; and the refugee was sent inadvertently to Montreal. If they then come and say, “My brother lives in Vancouver, and I want to be close to him,” we will move them. If it's because of a medical condition that cannot be treated in whatever destination they were going to, obviously we will look to see how we can accommodate that.
I think that, out of the 25,000 refugees we took in last year, fewer than 100 had to change destinations at the last minute. That does not mean these people cannot subsequently change locations. They arrive, stay in Quebec for a year, and then go elsewhere. In the meantime, however, they have learned French, and that is in fact what we wanted.