Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, Madam Chair. That's the simple answer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I should say that we work in close partnership with provinces and territories on settlement and integration programming. Although the federal government provides about $600 million outside of Quebec, provinces and territories also provide direct supports. The provin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  SWIS? It depends on what part of the country it is, but that program has been in place in one form or another since the 1990s, since 1999.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. We provide childminding services with a number of our different settlement services. For language training, or for employment-related services, not in all cases, but in many cases we provide childminding services.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When we looked at our programs, we identified what the barriers were. Madam Chair, the committee has identified some of these as well. One barrier that had a particular effect on immigrant women was that they couldn't come to language training or other settlement services because

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll get back with specific details—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —but there are circumstances such that we would allow for outright forgiveness. We'll get back to the committee with under what circumstances that could be allowed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, Madam Chair. It's about $55 million that's spent in refugee assistance programs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll turn that over to Mr. Gionet. I think he has more information than I do on this.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we do. We look at how successful individual areas are in terms of retaining immigrants and we also look at where immigrants are going. If they arrived in Prince Edward Island, for example, and they're not staying in Prince Edward Island, then where are those immigrants going

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't say that regional economic disparity is part of how the programs are developed, but I would say that the programs offered by service provider organizations are particularly sensitive to regional needs and to the needs in local economies. I don't know a single service p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Government of Canada resumed settlement services in British Columbia in the fiscal year 2014-15. As part of that provision of settlement services, we conducted a call for proposals in British Columbia to look at what settlement provider organizations were prepared to offer. T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, we make adjustments annually regarding where settlement organizations are funded. We have an annual exercise during which we look at where immigrants are settling across the country. I spoke a little bit about the formula we use. It's based on where immigrants are se

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I think it's important to remember that the refugee assistance program provides a number of different supports for refugees as they arrive in Canada. For government-assisted refugees, it also provides income support for that first year, some settlement services, and