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Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. CIC has very much taken this to heart. There has to be a significant outreach effort to try to reach people. As we've mentioned, the online resource is one of the principal ways we do this. We also have videos about marriage fraud. Those have been very, very successful, at least if you look at it in terms of the number of people who have watched those videos, which is well over 150,000 people.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A lot of the information that we provide is on the web, basically. There is certainly broad access and that has been well used. When we look at the number of people who have accessed that information, it is significant. We continue to look at what possibilities there are for some preparation for people who are abroad.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The answer is either one. Both have a mechanism to deal with it. Within CIC, the main way to do that is through our call centre. Our call centre has agents who are specially trained. If an agent receives such a call, the caller is referred to another unit within the call centre that has special training to deal with these sorts of situations.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been a few, but I think it's very limited.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do we have the numbers of that? I think it's about 33%.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is 32% where we would quantify sort of bad faith situations.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, we can provide that to the clerk.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, obviously I can't respond to a specific situation and there are going to be other factors involved there, but individuals do have the opportunity, through the Immigration and Refugee Board, to make an asylum claim, which is heard clearly. In fact, between 2010 and 2012, the Immigration and Refugee Board received about 600 claims that were based on forced marriages.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's 9,637 conditional visas until the end of January 2014.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From October 2012 until this time, so just over 9,500.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be very few simply because it's quite new. When you're looking at a two-year period as well, it's going to be very limited.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we would certainly involve the community organizations. I'll turn to my colleague from settlement services.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we do keep track of is those who have applied and at the front end we'd have a very clear idea of how many applications we would have refused and the basis for that refusal. We do have that information very clearly established. As we've said, it's about a 15% refusal rate worldwide, but that's for the whole gamut of possible reasons for refusal.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of what we are doing in terms of the selection work, I think it's quite robust.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, because the sponsor could well be a Canadian citizen.

February 26th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert Orr