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Citizenship and Immigration committee On the first question about outcomes, we would certainly be happy to share with the committee data on outcomes. We are able to do a lot of longitudinal data tracking. We're able to link our landings data: immigrants who come to this country, from where, and their profile with the
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Not to my knowledge, not specifically. Certainly, looking at the growing student volumes, we work a lot with the accreditation bodies of university and college communities, and provinces and territories. We certainly have a lot of engagement with them. But to my knowledge there h
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee We can follow up with the information, both about our call centre largely out of Montreal, but also the MP call line.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee With the family reunification cohort, I think we're looking at spouses, partners and children. There's been a lot of progress in bringing down those processing and wait times. There was a big effort in 2016 to bring down the backlog, to the point where—
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee I understand the visa review has been conducted over the last number of months, and there should be an announcement within weeks to months.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee We can follow up on that ATIP request.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee It ranges by complexity, in terms of how long it takes to respond to one.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee My colleague can answer questions on that, on the compact.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee The department is reviewing that report very carefully and will be coming forward with options and recommendations.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee Within the coming months.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee I couldn't say.
September 27th, 2018Committee meeting
Matt de Vlieger
Citizenship and Immigration committee They're reviewing the recommendations.
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