Citizenship and Immigration committee  In its platform the government committed to lifting the Mexican visa; an announcement has not yet been made on that. The review is ongoing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the number of landings this year will require the processing of more applications than will be received, even under the increased cap, so the inventory will decrease. It won't have decreased as much as it would have.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide historical information both on which provinces immigrants arrive in and which country they came from. Our levels plan is not based on nationality, so we don't know how many people from which country will arrive in the levels plan this year, but that information can be provided retroactively.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're certainly not blind from our planning and operational process point of view. We know historical trends and we use those trends to provide staffing and resources, but in our processing, we process cases in the order in which they are received.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we could provide the committee with that information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have that figure in front of me right now. It's several tens of millions of dollars, but we would want to provide the exact number.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees works closely with all resettlement countries from around the world, including the large resettlement countries such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and others, for each population to develop indicators of vulnerability.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think I would want to speak in general terms of the experience of the department. I would just say, I think, that one of the reasons that the operation was successful was that it was the most intense interdepartmental coordination effort that, certainly, I'd ever witnessed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It does happen. We can't prevent them if they wish to do so. If it's a pattern of activity, it could affect our future agreement with the sponsorship agreement holder if we feel that they are part of the problem, and that people are moving because they're not being given adequate support.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We speak with the Canada Border Services Agency at every level of our department every day.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide exact numbers to the committee, but at this time under that program we've had far more Syrian refugees identified for sponsorship than we've had organizations for doing the matching. However, separate from the family links program, formally the private sponsorship community is engaged very actively in doing sponsorships for people with family links to Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Will they have those loans paid back? I'm not sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The government has not announced any changes to the immigration loans program with regard to other refugees, or refugees who came in the past. Just to clarify the medical costs, those are quite modest. Those are the costs for the medical examination itself. The answer is no. There is no government announcement at this time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could correct that slightly, I said the immigration loans program is under active review, but the government has not yet announced any change to it.