Citizenship and Immigration committee  Overall, what we've spent on pre-arrival services is less than $20 million to date. We recently conducted a call for proposals for overseas services, where the contracts with those organizations were coming to an end. We're looking to expand our provision of pre-arrival services.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I think it's important to remember that the refugee assistance program provides a number of different supports for refugees as they arrive in Canada. For government-assisted refugees, it also provides income support for that first year, some settlement services, and housing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am happy to do so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A lot of the work on credentialling is done here in Ottawa, but throughout this, we work on credential recognition closely with Employment and Social Development Canada, including Service Canada, and there's a considerable footprint of people in British Columbia and in other provinces who are working on this situation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry but I don't have the number of CIC employees in British Columbia at my fingertips, Madam Chair. I'm happy to get back to you with that information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, we have three organizations that are currently offering pre-arrival services. One is an organization called S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and they offer services in Korea, Taipei, and Taiwan. They offer services to all newcomers except for refugees. We work with a second organization, the International Organization for Migration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Pre-arrival integration services focus on all of the elements that were mentioned, Madam Chair. We'll focus a lot on integration generally into Canadian society through the program that's offered by the International Organization for Migration and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. It will touch more lightly on employment issues as they are trying to cram a lot into a day.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we're trying hard and we hope the recent call for proposal on pre-arrival services helps to address a number of those gaps. We've increased funding in terms of what we're going to provide and oversee services to enable us to do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I think those figures relate to CIC's budget as a whole and not just to the refugee assistance program. There are a number of reasons for there being a lapse in our budget. Some money is what would be referred to as “ring-fenced” for special purposes. For instance, in health programs the moneys are fenced and, if they are not spent in that particular area, can't be reallocated within the department to use for other things.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Part of the government's commitment when it announced its commitment to an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees over three years was an additional 3,000 Iraqi refugees to be resettled over one year next year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, the number in Quebec also includes services for refugees. There's a slight difference in terms of what's provided in Quebec and what's provided in Canada between those two envelopes. Our envelope of $584 million doesn't include refugee assistance programs. That's another $55 million.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do it based on risk. We call it the FRAM. This is the risk assessment model that we use around how often we monitor and how often we audit these organizations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's all of the above, Madam Chair. When we go out, we'll go out this spring with a national call for proposal for settlement services in all areas outside of Quebec, including pre-arrivals—actually, not including pre-arrival services, as we've just done that one. We're currently assessing the bids that came in under that.