Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I can reiterate a few of the comments made by the minister. In terms of our processing of spouses' applications, in fact, for 2015 we actually exceeded the number of admissions that we had indicated in the plan. The plan had given a range of 45,000 to 48,000,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The funding is enhancing our processing capacity in terms of helping us to deal...it's not targeted to any one country. We try to deal with the applications on the basis of when applications have come in, and in terms of processing on the basis of the oldest applications that we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We should be in a position to make those numbers available shortly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will begin by saying that normally for settlement services allocation, as Ms. Edlund had explained, we have a funding formula that's based on the last three years. It looks at the intake in terms of the number of immigrants destined to a province, plus a factor for the number o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I can begin and then turn to my colleagues. In terms of the contingency, maybe I can describe it as more of a prudence factor, because we thought we would actually have to stand up the interim lodging sites, and of course, that was based on information we had in January

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I can begin and then turn to my colleagues. This program was, of course, part of a much broader strategy of the Government of Canada, dating back to about 2012, that was under the leadership of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. This wa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the minister said—and I'll ask Mr. Orr as well to go into this in further detail—it is a query-based system. We do not retain the information in our global case management system, but it is basically retained by the RCMP. There are certainly protocols in place, both with the U

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the minister said, the costs are entirely for processing capacity in terms of citizenship. Changes were made, for example, to the decision-maker model, which actually allowed us to bring in significant efficiencies in terms of decision-making and also some changes to our IT

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have had ongoing for many years a memorandum of understanding with Global Affairs for the support required for our immigration staff and missions abroad. Our department has the largest footprint, the largest number of employees in missions abroad, only after Global Affairs. Ot

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, could I make a correction to my answer on income support under the resettlement assistance program?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's actually not $9 million. I got my numbers reversed. I just wanted to correct the record. In fact it's an amount of $34 million approximately for income support under the resettlement assistance program. I wanted to clarify that so that I don't mislead you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, $9 million out of the $45 million in 2015-16 is for income support under the resettlement assistance program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, the allocation for this year for pre-arrival services out of the overall settlement services budget is an amount of about $45 million. As I had indicated previously it's based on the fact that through evaluations it has been determined that the more we can provide som

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I can turn to my colleagues as well. In terms of settlement services funding, the overall envelope as the minister has stated has not been reduced. In terms of the allocation of funding, we have put funding into pre-arrival services based on evidence from evaluations tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll add just a few details further to the minister's comments. In terms of the funding that was authorized for the overall Syrian national project, which included funding in the supplementary estimates (B) and supplementary estimates (C), a little over $44 million has actually