Questions on the Order Paper   to information request has been received for which no records exist. In an attempt to assist the requester, the access to Information and privacy division suggested the requester turn to the cost-recovery unit. IRCC only charges the $5 request fee for access to information requests

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, Canadians and the international community recognize this government's record and leadership on welcoming refugees, and I am proud of our record and our leadership. We are investing more than $700 million this year on refugee resettlement and integration services

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, I am so happy the member opposite has finally found a priority in reducing backlogs. We inherited a system under that party, where we were waiting for 24 months for citizenship. We cut that down to 12 months. Under the Conservative members' party, when

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, we made a promise to Canadians that we will fix the immigration system to grow our economy and reunite families and eliminate the backlogs that were left behind by the Conservatives. Our multi-year immigration plan is the most ambitious yet. It supports GDP growth

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill for her question. Our government is deeply committed to gender equality and combatting gender-based violence. The former Conservative government ignored women's rights groups, it ignored

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The honourable member is suggesting that I've removed something from a product that hasn't been completed, so I'd like to set the record straight about that—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When conditional PR was put in place by the Conservative government, women's advocacy groups, other advocacy groups, experts, everyone told them to not do that, because it would place women in vulnerable situations. They didn't listen. They went ahead with a wrong-headed policy

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   with their own families. Under the mismanagement of the immigration system by the Conservatives, caregivers have been facing wait times of between four and five years. Our government will eliminate the caregiver backlog by the end of 2018, and we will establish a new processing time of only

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, our government is proud of our record with respect to refugees. We have redoubled the number of resettled refugees that we accept on a yearly basis. We have almost quadrupled the number of privately sponsored refugees that the previous government had, because we

Citizenship and Immigration committee   assured that any increases in the levels this year or in the next two years will have a corresponding increase in the amount of money we dedicate towards settlement services, so these newcomers can be settled and absorbed into Canada. I must say, though, look at our track record

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Just to set the record straight, this policy has been in place for 40 years.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   it on the record and I will repeat it. The 40-year-old policy is out of step with our overall government's accessibility agenda, but we have to continue consulting with provinces and territories to make sure that we get it right. Part of the reason we were waiting is to also hear from

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will say on the record that there are no formal negotiations ongoing with respect to the safe third country agreement. Having said that, we have a partnership with the United States, our counterparts, where we talk about anything and everything related to border security

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, who did not take border operations seriously? The Conservative Party. It cut $390 million from the CBSA. Who did not take asylum claims seriously? The Conservative Party. It cut funding from the IRB, which is why we inherited massive backlogs in the IRB. We

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   of Daesh, vulnerable women, the most vulnerable refugees in the world, the party opposite voted against that measure. When the time came to invest in CBSA, the party opposite voted against that measure. We will take no lessons from the Conservatives on this issue.