Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to present Citizenship and Immigration Canada's (CIC) participation in the open data portal. As many of you might know already, CIC's data differ somewhat from much of the other data available on the Government

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  For us, we started publishing quarterly data before the open data came into being. Then when the open data became available as another venue, the current 37 tables that we have there, they are on open data. Five of them are also published on CIC's website. The same information is

Government Operations committee  Very quickly.... The way we experienced this question in CIC is that we have the internal momentum driven by efficiency searches, trying to serve our clients better, and whatnot...and also driven by Government of Canada commitments, open government. However, having said that, we

Government Operations committee  As I explained, the source data is personal data—

Government Operations committee  In our experience, open data did help in terms of the efficiency of our work, so we're getting less ATIP, less cost-recovery. Those are helping us save resources and invest those resources in making more data available, not sending out DVDs or mail-outs and whatnot. Having said

Government Operations committee  We're very similar. In our case we also cannot make our source data directly available as is. So we aggregate our reports, our tables. Data sets are all aggregate data. Regardless, even if it's aggregate, we need to deal with the smaller values to prevent identification of indiv

Status of Women committee  No, I don't have any statistics with me, but we will definitely look into it and we'll get back to the committee for sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As you would anticipate, immigrants in different programs will behave differently. Overall, if you take all newcomers—methodologies differ from study to study—we look at five-year arrivals and we take the intended destination as a starting point. When we look at that overall, in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do not have the data for all the provinces together. We can definitely provide these. I'll just give you an example. In New Brunswick, in 2016, we had 1,680 resettled refugees. These are rounded numbers. You also asked about the asylum claimants. In terms of refugee protected p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, as you know, we do follow and monitor different immigrant groups in terms of their retention rates, but in terms of the tools we use, it's too early for us to understand how many are staying or will stay. The initial studies and the research that we are getting from the regi

Public Accounts committee  I'll comment just very quickly on the second question. Our services, in terms of both outreach to the resettled refugees and the quality of the services, based on OECD assessments, are always superior to those of the rest of the OECD countries overall, including those for asylum

Public Accounts committee  According to our survey, 40% of the Syrian refugees spoke English, around 1% spoke French, and almost 60% spoke neither of the two official languages. Of course, there are variations between— the privately sponsored refugees and the government-assisted refugees.

Public Accounts committee  First, the agreement between Canada and Quebec is regularly evaluated at a high level. Four years ago, we conducted such an evaluation and we will be starting another one shortly. The evaluation allows us to analyze how services compare, by which I mean the services we provide an

Public Accounts committee  From the very beginning, even before the first refugees arrived, the outcomes monitoring framework was set up. There was a ministerial meeting in Ottawa with all provinces, all ministers, and we tabled this joint framework. From that moment on, we knew that we needed provincial i