Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. The way it works is that every 28 days, maximum, they must be brought before the court and a further warrant for up to 28 days obtained.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By air?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By plane?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Last year, sorry. It's the Canadian “year”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was 287 in the 2010-11 year. So far, to April 14—so from July 1 last year to April 14 this year—there were 234 claims, of which 21 were second claims, so 213 new individuals.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But you are almost ten times larger than us. We have a population of 4.33 million. So we're a much smaller country as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, this is something that is proposed in this bill, only for people arriving by mass arrival by boat. What happens at present with people who claim and their identity cannot be established is that they are detained, generally in a low-security facility, which is a refugee specia

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. That can happen before they are determined or after they are determined. At the point that they are determined, they can be granted permanent residence. They are permanent residents effectively immediately, or as soon as the paperwork is completed. It's only for the mass arr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. The normal process is that we assess their need for protection once and if they're found to need protection; then they move to permanent residence. For these people under our mass arrival, we would assess them twice. If they were found to need protection at the first point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would seek to return them to their country of origin in the same way as the person who is not found to need protection under our standard processes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide you with a copy of the bill and communications material around the package. We'd be very happy to send that to the secretary of your committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have that capacity. Fraser can speak to it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At present. It was around two and a half thousand ten years ago—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it's much lower now.