Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. I'll start off, and then perhaps IRCC might want to chime in. Certainly, through the negotiations of the global compacts, we took a whole-of-government approach, so any of the text that related to statistics and data would have been checked with Statistics Canada, a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, we respect the sovereign right of all countries to join or not join any international—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a mix. They are party to many human rights treaties, for example, that are binding. I think there's absolutely a mix, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As part of the international assistance review, we did look at the changing dynamic for global development, so that included the sustainable development goals, the Paris accord, but also the context of migration, refugees and IDPs, recognizing that Canada's international assistan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly Global Affairs Canada and IRCC worked hand in glove throughout the consultations and the negotiations of both compacts. Mr. Linder and I spent a lot of time together, and the implementation is multi-faceted in terms of the global aspect, through Global Affairs Canada, a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The United States, from the outset, did not join in the negotiations. Since July, the end of negotiations, a number of countries have publicly said that they will not join in the GCM: Australia, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Estonia, Israel and Bulgaria.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed, the millions of migrants on the move often live in poverty, where the situations of the poorest and most vulnerable are acute, including women and girls. As you stated, this is a key part of the global compact, which recognizes those particular vulnerabilities that are fa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of both compacts, I can say for the global compact on migration that it is the first time the international community has come together for this type of framework on migration. While aspirational—not binding—it is allowing for lessons learned, knowledge sharing, best pra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly for Canada it is important to be in the compact in terms of creating a global framework and global co-operation for an issue where no one country can address migration on its own, and also in reinforcing the role of the multilateral system to support those efforts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will supplement and make a point of clarification further to Ms. Greene's point about it being a non-binding compact among states. It won't be ratified; it will be adopted by states. It is not a treaty and, therefore, it won't be ratified.

Finance committee  I wouldn't be able to say with authority.

Finance committee  I'd say it's very much the intent that we would be able to provide the same information as is available now in terms of the qualitative and quantitative information that's available on the Bretton Woods reporting as well as ODA overall.

Finance committee  We'll return to the committee with that additional information. I will say that we did just have a peer review by the OECD DAC that gave a very positive review of our transparency on our international assistance.

Finance committee  If I could just underline, perhaps, in Bill C-86, under clause 658, it does explicitly state that “a summary of Canada's activities under the Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act that have contributed to carrying out of the purpose of this Act” would be reported. As Ms. Pang

Finance committee  I'm not sure, to be honest. I can tell you that Canada's rating in terms of the transparency of our reporting on international assistance is considered very good in our recent peer review by the OECD DAC and also by the international aid transparency initiative. I think we're bui