Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, the task force reviews all cases. When a person is here on a temporary basis, we immediately award a temporary resident permit immediately after having determined that the person is a genuine student, and the note corroborating our decision is left on file. So if the person, afterwards, decides to apply for permanent residence, the note will already be there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Those are very individual questions that students should be discussing with their counsel. It's not up to IRCC or CBSA to be giving legal advice. The work of the task force is to determine whether there was genuineness in terms of the study-permit process. We are intervening and issuing the TRPs when we do believe they were genuine.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Kwan, your time is up, but I'll give you 30 seconds, Madam Kingsley, to respond.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that the immigration process is very separate from individual decisions to pursue something in court or not. We can only speak to the immigration side.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley, you have the floor.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the exponential growth in this program, there's no question that it just keeps growing and growing. As the minister noted, there is no cap on the temporary resident pathways. It is something that we're very cognizant of and concerned about. It's creating, in some communities, some issues with regard to absorptive capacity.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. The plan to develop a list of recognized institutions is being worked on. We held preliminary consultations with a number of institutions earlier this summer to obtain information, such as the type of support they provide to the foreign students they accept, and to identify what percentage of the fees paid by these students is reinvested in that population, whether by funding mental health support services or employment support.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. McCrorie and Ms. Kingsley, thank you very much for your time and your clarifications, which have at least given us an idea of what is happening at these two federal institutions. Let's hope that we can clarify and address all kinds of problems in these two meetings.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. Case reviews proceed very quickly. In the event that a student has not yet received a decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, we put a note on their file in the Global Case Management System, the GCMS. If a student applies for permanent residence status, the officer processing that student's application will see the note on file.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley, I don't think you had finished speaking.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The note is left in the system. If the student applies for permanent residence, the note will be very obvious and the officer will see it right away.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is a requirement for students to let us know if they change institutions. When they do let us know, we capture that information within GCMS, but unfortunately, it's not extractable in a way that we can easily report on. It is an area we're looking at enhancing, and we do get reporting from DLIs twice annually on student attendance, so right now we're taking a layered approach in determining that.