Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the cost of activities, we are currently figuring it out, but a trip to the United States normally costs $2,000 per person. That's just a round figure. For the IRCC officer we sent down to Miami and/or to New York to assist with outreach efforts, the cost is extreme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two parts to my response. First, you are correct in your statement that the government-assisted refugee overseas selection has nothing to do with this and the work permits that are processed. We do know for the Lacolle movement that the Government of Quebec is very qui

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Chair, if you permit, I can add a bit of statistical analysis to this that may be helpful to the member. We did a snapshot. We looked at over 8,000 actual claims. Out of those, 194 were found ineligible. Of the ineligibilities, 176 were for a prior claim, probably largely in Uni

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The data I have is not quite broken down like that, but I will give you some data that is very helpful nonetheless. Prior to August 24, which was when the minister made the decision to issue work permits, we had issued 5,913 of those permits. Since August 24, we have issued 3,902

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we don't track finding gainful employment. They're open work permits, so people can obviously find employment and then move to other employment. The natural course of people in their settlement process is finding employment and going forward.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, our department does not track that level of detail more or less at the municipal level, people finding employment in their home communities.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, they are. In fact filling out the necessary forms is something that we've been reaching out to the Canadian Bar Association on, to send to all their members, which they have, as well as all the immigration consultants and the national organizations that send out to that memb

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. The forms are required, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Chair. Again, generally speaking, you see roughly around 60% of the demographic overall being males. You see a number of children, usually around 20% or so. It depends on nationality and where they're coming from. We see, obviously, a lot of family units. In terms of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will answer in English to be more specific. This is an important issue. In fact, overall the health of the asylum claimants very much drove how we responded operationally. We wanted to ensure that Canada's border, in being well managed and with such high numbers, did not have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The number I have up to September 17 was just over 2,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is across Canada. Sorry.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The IRB backlog or....?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the backlog that IRCC has, we only have one backlog and that is the number of decisions to be made on eligibility in Lacolle. There is no backlog. It doesn't exist for the rest of Canada, and we are very happy with the way we're working through that, the thousands of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say so based on the fact that when you look at just the Lacolle movement, we have already processed through to eligibility 77% of all of the individuals who have passed through that Quebec corridor. Of course nationally the volume of processing and our speed has not cha