Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the measure is coming forward, it's because the legal advice we received—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. I can say two things. I can say that I can't disclose the legal advice we've received because that's privileged. The second thing I can say is that, as a general matter of principle, all government measures are subjected to legal advice. We operate on the basis—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not aware of any study specifically on incentives based on social assistance.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I'm not aware of that kind of study. If by implication--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they're not subject to the same provision of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in that respect.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's possible. There's nothing in the operation of this that would prevent that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So you're referring to the calculation of the social transfer on a per capita basis—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —and that if a large number of asylum claimants who, for example, would likely have come to one province but decided to go to that other province and then got factored into Statistics Canada on that other province's register, would that province now get higher social transfer ben

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a few hypotheticals in there, but.... Maybe I'll leave it for my colleague.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's also correct. Resettled refugees, one of the categories of protected persons, when they come to Canada as government-assisted refugees are eligible for the resettlement assistance program. That's some financing for the first year, so they wouldn't draw on social benefits f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't go to the research necessarily, but by definition the process of the Immigration and Refugee Board tells us that there are some claims that are founded and some claims that aren't founded. They have a determination process and there are criteria that are looked at. I t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't believe so. My understanding of provincial social benefit regimes is that they generally, right now, do not have eligibility criteria that would allow temporary foreign workers or international students to access them. That's my understanding. So then the category tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's probably a lot in your question there and a lot that should be directed at the provinces and territories that would have to analyze the situation, as they are responsible for the social benefit regimes and would have to weigh a lot of factors about the design of that part

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll leave it to my colleague from Finance Canada.