Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Ferguson, I want to thank you and your entire team for joining us today.
I will pick up where Mr. Deltell left off and talk about the welcoming of Syrian refugees. I would like to inform you and all the members that the Quebec auditor general just presented her report today. It has a whole chapter on the welcoming of refugees and immigrants. I refer you to that report, which does not paint a glowing picture of the Government of Quebec's services in terms of the follow-up on welcoming and integration. Yet that is part of its responsibility. That is a major red flag, since the federal government cannot get the information needed to check the status of newcomers to Canada with regard to their integration and settlement.
That said, with Quebec being the exception, how are other provinces collecting the data that helps determine whether we are reaching our objectives in terms of welcoming, settlement and integration?
I already raised the issue concerning another topic. Client opinion surveys—in this case surveys of people receiving the services—are relatively easy to administer because we know where those individuals are, at least during the first two years. Would it be possible to recommend that the department make conducting surveys an ongoing practice to find out whether refugees have received health care services, education services or job search assistance? All that is part of the services provided. Could that possibility be considered and would it be desirable to collect that data?