Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly this is a caseload of people that requires very careful scrutiny in terms of security and other background issues. CIC works very closely with their partners, such as the Canada Border Services Agency, to make sure that each case is given very thorough scrutiny. And yes

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is based on consultations between the Government of Canada and the UNHCR. They refer the number--usually, at least--that we ask them to refer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The process is one that is the same for refugees whether they'd be sponsored by a group in Canada or referred to us by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. A visa officer assesses the case under the Canadian statutory and regulatory requirements, so a visa officer has to be sat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were different targets at different times over the period. In the very early days there was a commitment, I believe, by the government to match one for one.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That didn't last a long time because the generosity of Canadians proved so enthusiastic that the government wasn't able to continue that commitment. Over that period of time, we managed the arrival of refugees in the way that we do today. Parliament was informed every year of th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. I would have to go and get that information and submit it to the committee. But it was an extraordinary effort on the part of Canadians all across the country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe that's the sort of question you would need to ask the minister.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly whatever the government chooses to do with the number of refugees who are to be admitted in Canada, we'll have to take into consideration the capacity of whether it would be our offices abroad to process the cases or the settlement organizations in Canada to receive the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That particular period, 1979—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —to 1981, was really the beginning of the private sponsorship program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is very much a ballpark estimate, but I believe the total number over the life of the Indo-Chinese special class was around 150,000 refugees. In addition there would have been people sponsored in the family class. Honestly, it would be better for me to get that number and s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't say I actually remember that program, as a civil servant. But my knowledge of the program is that there were between two million and three million people displaced from Indochina, beginning in the late 1970s and carrying on through until the end of the comprehensive plan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The first thing for me to say is that a very large number of people who were resettled, were resettled over a very long period of time, from 1979 to 1995. It didn't all start at once in the first year. There was a special regulatory class created, called the Indochinese designat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They have to be identified. We ask people to write Iraqi—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.