Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we can provide additional details in that area. To be clear, the assessment does not do a cost-benefit analysis on an individual basis. It is an assessment based on the results of the medical examination and supplementary testing, from which a medical officer assesses the s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The U.K. and the United States have differing approaches, actually. Certainly in the United States it's difficult to argue that it's going to be a burden on publicly funded services, unless it's individuals who are very low income and who will be on Medicaid. In both of those cas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, to answer that question we received feedback from a wide range of stakeholder groups. We also considered other activities that the department was undertaking in terms of its outreach and contact with Canadians. In terms of the identification of concerns about a lack of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Disability advocacy groups see this as being discriminatory against individuals with disabilities, despite that being the position that is—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there have not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will provide that data.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The input costs in terms of the amount of effort by the department were relatively low.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We used one year of representative data in order to conduct the cost-benefit analysis, and the determination is based on a five-year cost estimate. We used those cost estimates as the basis for the savings.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The approximately 900 cases were reviewed by an analyst to identify the estimated cost savings from each of those cases, and we summed that up as being the estimated cost savings to provinces for that year. Given that we were using a year that had roughly balanced numbers in term

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is straight-up avoided costs for the health care systems. Net economic benefit would have been too complex to undertake in the analysis.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will get that data.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to be clear, it is that each year of decisions in essence generates a five-year profile of avoided costs for the provinces. Because it involved a case-by-case review by an analyst in order to conduct the cost-benefit analysis, we used only one year, whic

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We used a five-year profile because that is the basis of the policy, which is that the assessment is done using the estimated costs over a five-year period for an individual's given health condition.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's more that with those rolling five-year profiles, in any given year, you will have five years' worth of decisions that are generating savings, so your savings will be on the order of $135 million, perhaps as little as $120—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.