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Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I can clarify that. In my remarks, I described the withholding process within the FPFAA with respect to the CST, which is that if there is a minimum residency requirement placed in the laws of the province, the Minister of Employment and Social Development is required by st

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think my earlier comment was that the minimum residency prohibition ensures that there is access to social assistance across the country, but there was no requirement through the Canada social transfer regarding how that is done or regarding any other aspect of social assistanc

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can just add the citation from the Canada Health Act, Section 11. It's called portability. Under 11. (1) (a) of the Canada Health Act: (1) In order to satisfy the criterion respecting portability, the health care insurance plan of a province (a) must not impose any minimum p

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we wouldn't have done a study.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. The department uses Statistics Canada population counts to determine the per capita allocation, and that does include them.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, what would the...? I'd just want some clarification on the motivation.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess my response to that question would be that the Canada social transfer is a contribution towards the provincial and territorial costs of providing programs and services in three broad areas. It's a contribution towards it, so in terms—

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have nothing to add to that, no.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. It won't have any impact on transfer payments because no other aspect of the Canada social transfer is being affected. The equal per capita allocation of the total amount that's set in legislation for the year is going to apply regardless.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think with respect to the $20-million penalty, you are referring to an incident with the Province of British Columbia. On December 1, 1995, they put in place a three-month residency requirement for those collecting social assistance who were arriving from other provinces and co

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess, first off, from my understanding of what British Columbia put in place, it was a global restriction, so it applied to those arriving from the rest of Canada and from out of country. To the extent that the specific proposal in C-43 is that a minimum residency requirement

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there would not be a penalty for a province that chose not to introduce a minimum wait period.

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's left to the provinces how to allocate across. It's a very general facilitative—

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's not in the bill. What I can say is there is no change to the equal per capita allocation. We take the data on population counts from Statistics Canada and we use that as the basis for our equal per capita allocation. That does not change in the amendments proposed in this

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Canada health transfer and the Canada social transfer were both created in fiscal year 2004-05 out of the split of what was then the Canada health and social transfer. It was a combined transfer for all health and social purposes. In 2004-05 it was split to increase the trans

November 17th, 2014Committee meeting

Daniel MacDonald