Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I have a number of comments in response to the question. The caregiver inventory actually has been reduced by about 34% as of December 31, 2015. We have been making headway in terms of the processing times. In particular, I would just note the fact that in terms of t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, that is a commitment, certainly, of the government. Labour market impact assessment fees are under the responsibility of the Minister of Employment and Social Development. That department is working in terms of the follow-up required to be able to deliver on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I'll open, and then I'll turn to Mr. Orr to provide further details. It is correct that the passport fund operates off a revolving fund. That means it essentially has a permanent authority that allows it to use its revenues against its expenditures and to carry forward a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I would begin by clarifying that in fact we're collecting biometric information from 29 countries and one territory. We are not sharing biometric information with those countries. We have an agreement with the United States government. In that case, on a query-based ap

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our protocol with the United States government in fact protects the management of that information. That's certainly the understanding that was negotiated, and that we have with the American government. With regard to your request for data, we can certainly have a commitment to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The funding that has been identified in these estimates is for staff, and we have, I think, about 25 FTEs associated with this. It really is to ensure that we are providing the necessary protections for classified information we receive from security partners that help us make de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not really.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I can clarify, Mr. Chair, in terms of the settlement services funding that is being provided under the Syria initiative, we aren't looking back at a three-year average. What we are looking at are the refugees who have come to Canada and their destinations. We've allocated the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe I'll turn to Ms. Edlund to respond to that question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll ask Ms. Tapley to answer in greater detail. Our experience, which I think she would speak to, is that, for the most part, we haven't seen a lot of migration within the first one or two years. It may be the case that, with a longer period of time in Canada, you actually may

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're happy to respond. Ms. Tapley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could just add that under the provincial nominee program, and you'll see the program is staying at a constant level, provinces have the ability to access their own provincial nominee programs to bring in health care workers as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we'd be happy to get back to the member with that information. I know that our report on priorities and plans does include a breakdown of our expenditures and overall FTEs. In terms of being able to do the backward comparison, and giving you that compared to our other

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we would anticipate that we would actually have new arrangements in place for April 2017. Our agreements were expiring at the end of this fiscal year and, because of the timing of the election, the decision was made to extend the current arrangements. This is actuall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it certainly would be over the course of the year, in the summer, I would expect. We know that we've received many submissions, so we have to analyze and assess the submissions based on the criteria indicated in the RFP, then have decisions and determinations made, and then