Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the first part, I'll refer to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, where in section 39 it talks about what we call an inadmissibility criteria. Someone is inadmissible for financial reasons if they are unable or unwilling to support themselves or any other person who is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, through the visa officer's process, the application that they're making—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have any information on individuals who are supposed to be—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Even anecdotally, I think the place to ask would be a provincial regime that is looking at social benefits. We do have some information-sharing arrangements with some provinces that are looking to have information from us about when we have a removal order, so that they can make

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm happy to clarify that no provinces asked for this particular measure. We've certainly seen in the media reports that some provinces have indicated quite clearly that they're not interested in taking up—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a federal act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I wouldn't agree with that statement. I would agree with part of the statement. The operation is that provinces would design—and I can't speculate on how they would design—their social benefit regime, who it would apply to, and what the period of residence would be. The fact

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's hard to speculate, but I will try. If a province were to impose a residency requirement and that province had a large number of asylum claimants and most of those were found by the IRB to have a positive determination—that they were to become protected persons—then yes, if t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're right about the construct, that some claimants are successful and then, once they're successful at the Immigration and Refugee Board, they become protected persons and would be eligible for social benefits were a province to impose a residency requirement that otherwise li

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll deal with your last question first. I believe that, based on 2013 figures, there were about 10,400 asylum claimants, and about 55% of those had a positive determination. So 55% of those were found to be refugees who then became protected persons.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Depending on the provincial design and how they design their programs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it would be the 45% actually, based on these numbers. And then the province—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, 55% are approved, and so upon approval they would have access to the—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  While they're waiting for approval, none of the refugee claimants would have access to the benefits if a province instituted a residence—