Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just reiterate what the minister said. The business, the lease—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Anytime we are looking at a lease renewal such as this one, which was coming to an end, we assess our current and future needs. We worked with Public Services Canada in order to put together our requirements, and our requirements really are related to the fact that we wish to exp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By our records, the target range for 2015 was between 18,000 and 20,000 for parents and grandparents, and the actual number admitted was 19,834, so it was right at the high end of the target.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it's not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be speaking before committee members again today. We are committed to assisting the committee and its work on family reunification. I will make a few short remarks on the topic, following which my colleagues and I will be very pleased to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I'll just make a quick comment and then I'll turn it over to Daniel Mills, our chief financial officer, to answer the financial question. Current levels for this year for parents and grandparents are now 20,000. I'd just like to note to the committee that over the las

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, on the first question, we recognize the important contribution that parents and grandparents make to the well-being of families in Canada and their ability to participate in the economy. However, when we do costing, which are fiscal costs, we don't include those bene

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have evaluations of the benefits. However, we don't cost specifically, across any of our streams, the benefits of bringing in an immigrant. We evaluate how immigrants do when they get here, what their incomes are, and how they contribute to family life in other ways than incom

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon and thank you. Thank you for inviting me to discuss the Auditor General’s findings concerning Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The department appreciates the Auditor General’s review of its visa approval processes. I am pleased to be joined today by

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, first of all, we have a mix of Canada-based staff and locally engaged staff. We find that that is really the most effective way for us to deliver the significant volumes of processing that we do—1.4 million temporary visas a year, a good portion of which are processed

Public Accounts committee  We have in some cases, yes. Whenever we find any evidence that staff is behaving inappropriately, we investigate, and we have on occasion had to let some staff go.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Of these four— I'll let Bob answer this.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd be happy to discuss that. Since the Auditor General's report, we have confirmed that the 14 persons who accessed their own information are locally engaged employees of IRCC. From the information that we have available to date, it appears that these empl

Public Accounts committee  The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and our department provide the same thing. We speak with employees regularly, both during meetings or as part of the annual assessment, to make sure they fully understand the values and ethics principles. Therefore, additio

Public Accounts committee  I'd be pleased to respond. The main response we are making to the Auditor General's findings, which were very timely and relevant for us, is that we have developed an international network professional conduct standard. This standard has enabled us to consolidate in one place a