Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps this is two questions. The first, I believe, deals with immigrants moving after they arrive in Canada. Have I understood that correctly?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The formula is calculated based on where immigrants land, so we make our allocations based on that calculation. So within the province—and I'm not sure, Dawn if you'd like to add to this as well—that would be what we--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just wanted to make one point. We recently launched a pilot project with vouchers for language training. Without getting into the details, one of the things it's shown us is that people tend to take the service in the place they have landed. We can speak more about that, if y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do keep those statistics, as a matter of fact. In fact, we have recently published a study on the interprovincial mobility of immigrants in Canada. We looked at immigrants who landed from 2000 to 2006, based on the 2006 tax year. What we found was that immigrants move from som

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not 100% sure I follow. The figures that I quoted in my opening remarks are based on the funding formula that applies to provinces outside Quebec. Those were the 63% of the funding with 55% of the landings; those were the figures I had used in my remarks.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, I think it's difficult to make a comparison between the Quebec agreement and the funding formula that's used for other provinces. In Quebec, one of the key differences is that Quebec has responsibility for selection as well, which is something that the federal gover

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it depends on the different categories of newcomers coming to Canada. Needs for refugees are higher than for those who are coming under the economic class, for example, or refugees as compared to, in some cases, provincial nominees, or the business class--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I would say that needs have not decreased.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that is true. I wouldn't say we are at the highest level in Canadian history, but it's high compared with recent years.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's close to the same, and soon we'll be able to release figures for next year as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The global budget is down by $53 million, and then how we allocate resources outside Quebec depends on the national funding formula. That funding formula is derived by a couple of things, but one is the level of immigrants landing in particular provinces. We use a three-year slid

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And I will try to be as quick as I can, Mr. Chairman. As you said, my name is Catrina Tapley. I am the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of Strategic and Program Policy at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. With me today is Dawn Edlund, the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Far be it for me to put words in the mouths of my colleagues at CBSA or the RCMP, and perhaps these are questions the committee would like to address to them, but I would say based on our conversations with enforcement agencies around this, with the RCMP, CBSA, and CSIS, that the