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Citizenship and Immigration committee Good afternoon and thank you for having us as part of this study on migration challenges and opportunities for Canada. I appreciate your opening remarks and the sense of the scope of the study. My name is Matt de Vlieger. I'm the Director General of Strategic Policy at Immigrati
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Obviously, the broader migration trends that have been highlighted by my colleague and highlighted earlier by the UNHCR have impacts for Canada. They also present opportunities. At IRCC, we are seeing higher volumes in virtually all areas that we manage. In terms of permanent r
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for the question. I'm not aware of the particular study you're citing, but certainly when we're looking at immigration and immigration levels, we look at it from various perspectives. One of the perspectives is that it's a long-time commitment. We're looking at perm
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, the primary difference is that express entry relates to the permanent movement, so for people to become immigrants and permanent residents of Canada. There is a different kind of application process that we're looking at there versus the global skills strategy, where we're l
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee May I ask, in which way? Do you mean processing times, outcomes?
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee We know that with our application volumes, which have increased in pretty much all categories, but certainly in the economic categories, that Canada is a destination of choice, certainly. When we look at processing times we are very competitive with our comparator countries, ce
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee What went into the determination?
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think the government would have been looking at several factors, and I mentioned some of them. They would have been looking at the long-term contributions that immigrants will make, based on historical track record of outcomes, so looking at things like population. We certain
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Government would have heard about sectors that are in shortage, employer groups that are looking to access high human capital talent, and not always high human capital, but often of intermediate skill as well. Then the government would have looked at the various pathways in the i
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee I might turn to my colleague in the international network on that one.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee I give the example of the immigration levels plan that we spoke about. That's the plan that grows to 310,000 permanent resident admissions this year. That was accompanied at the time—I think it was in the fall economic statement, or budget 2018—with the accompanying resources tha
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee We'd be happy to take that as an undertaking.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee No. All levels targets would be, in a sense, arbitrary. They're choices by governments. Certainly the 1% figure has been advocated by several stakeholders. It's a bit of a clear marker, and people like a clear marker. In terms of some of the questions that your colleague had aske
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee There's been quite an evolution in the immigration program over some 20 years. Part of that was the advent of the provincial nominee program in 1998. You used to see Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver having 95% of Canada's immigrant landings. That's shifted considerably in the last
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Maybe I'll start, and then turn to my colleague. You're right in mentioning the levels plan. The targets for the refugee resettlement category trend upwards over that three-year plan. Internationally, we are a leader in terms of the numbers of resettled refugees referred to us b
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger