Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. As you said, my name is Corinne Prince. I'm the director general of settlement and integration policy at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. I’m here today with my colleagues Stephanie Kirkland, director general of the Settlement Network, whi

Status of Women committee  That's a very good question. I do not have with me a comparison of the federal and provincial packages of support for seniors versus newcomers to Canada. I know there has been some narrative, certainly since the Syrian cohort, that with 45,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada,

Status of Women committee  Sure. I believe I said in my opening statement that over a half of the newcomers to Canada are women. We know from the take-up rates of our services that approximately 55% of the clients are women. The statistics we're using are from the year 2015-16; the last year's are being f

Status of Women committee  Sure. There are two things I can provide you with off the top of my head. I'll provide one other additional piece post-committee. We know that in 2015-16 we served approximately 400,000 newcomers. I don't have the breakdown of refugees versus immigrants. We can see if our resea

Status of Women committee  Okay. The second thing I would provide is this. The department did a rapid impact evaluation of the operation Syria and that is a very important report that really does break it down for you, and it's the clearest we have to date. It shows that 100% of Syrian children are in the

Status of Women committee  That may have been early on. The report shows better findings than that. I think it would be fabulous for us to get that to the committee.

Status of Women committee  Okay, thanks.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, Ms. Vecchio. I want to try to unpack it a little for you, because it's a multi-layered issue in terms of certainly refugee integration, but immigrant integration overall. Refugees coming into Canada are eligible for the full suite of services. We know that. In term

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. That is a huge success story. The department does track refugee and immigrant cohorts over time. I'm very pleased to share that the settlement program evaluation is just being completed, and will provide data on outcomes and outputs of the program over the past

Status of Women committee  I believe it does.

Status of Women committee  I will pass that question to my colleague, David Cashaback.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that important question, particularly with regard to immigrant and refugee integration. The policy of the department is that if we don't provide child care, transportation, and interpretation services, we likely won't be able to get the clients, particularly the fe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would just add, particularly regarding the situation in Calgary, that the local service provider organizations are working extremely closely—more than ever, actually—with the local health authorities, not only in terms of mental health but even, as a specific exampl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our settlement policies require our service provider organizations to provide, especially with the additional funding that has been provided for this particular population—

Official Languages committee  Thank you. As far as complaints to the Commissioner of Official Languages are concerned, discussions are under way between the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages and our department. We are co-operating fully with the OCOL. As the minister mentioned in his presenta