Citizenship and Immigration committee  No study that I'm aware of. The provinces would have to design and look at what mitigation measures they might want to put in place if they were to move to this kind of regime where they limited benefits to certain populations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not aware of a study that the province did related to unfounded claims.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it wouldn't. It would be just limited to the reforms that were brought in, in 2012.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. It would just be referring to the reforms brought in, I think, in December 2012.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the first part of your question, I wouldn't comment on the motivations of a particular private member's bill. But in terms of the Government of Canada's involvement and when that work started, I believe it was around March 2014 that we started to work on provisions related to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The provinces have sole responsibility for designing their social benefit regimes in terms of rates and eligibility. The only federal condition that was applied was in relation to the Canada social transfer, and that was about minimum residency. That's the condition that's now

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I'm not aware of a specific study. However, certainly in the process of looking at the refugee reforms that were brought forward in 2012, as a government, we were looking at irregular patterns of migration. There were some countries that seemed to generate a large number

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the Canada health transfer is not as much my field. My colleague might have something to say about it, but my understanding is the same as yours, that it doesn't have the same condition that the Canada social transfer does in terms of minimum residency. Then, in fact, some

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By implication, if social benefits were an incentive, you would see the number of claims reduced.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I haven't seen a study directly on social benefits. Obviously, the provinces might have those kinds of studies.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that wouldn't be what I'm saying. In the course of developing policy, bringing forward legislation, or measures that would be in a budget, there would be legal advice that the government receives. Obviously, it wouldn't be putting forward legislation that runs counter to lega

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't be in a position to disclose the precise nature of conversations between two governments. In general terms, if a province were to choose to go down this route, it would have to do its own policy analysis and get its own advice about the legal implications of moving in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't be in a position to be a legal counsel to the provincial governments that might be considering any number of—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The department would always get legal advice about any policy measure.