Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will begin and then I will defer to my colleague, who will finish answering. This funding will enable us to hire 6.8 new employees for the fiscal year. I'm sorry, I'll just switch because my notes are in English. That's for employer compliance activities. It will allow us, al

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The fees were established to ensure that they pay for the program. These fees will be part of the government's consolidated revenue fund. They will be used for the labour market impact assessments, as you said.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As we developed the express entry system over the last two years, we did broad-based consultations with a wide variety of stakeholders including employers. Certainly, the way the express entry system is structured means that to the degree that there are job offers, we facilitate

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We did hold a number of round tables with stakeholders including employers. We have also established an employer liaison network, and I'll turn to Catrina to speak about that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the $3 million that appears in the supplementary estimates, at the time that we undertook the process leading into the supplementary estimates, we were going to request an expenditure and access to funds to broaden our advertising campaign for services to newcomers, w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're starting well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll introduce the comments and my colleague will jump in. The express entry funds are supplementary to funds that were provided last fall. When we requested the supplementary (B) funding, the plan had not been finalized. These funds are related to the completion of that amount.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. As you know, the express entry initiative was launched at the beginning of January. We were happy with the initial interest in the program and the response in terms of the number of expressions of interest. I'll ask Bob Orr to give you the numbers, b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think you'll have to. My remarks will be quite brief.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. There's no problem. I am absolutely confident that Bob Orr is thrilled to be back here again. I am pleased, Mr. Chair, to be here to present our supplementary estimates (C) for the fiscal year 2014-15. I'm here with the three ADMs. I'll be brief in order to highlight

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The changes to the passport program processes have just been made. This is a transition period for us. We are making plans for the program's transformation. We want to ensure that the system we use is safe. We expect that will be done over the next few years. So while we're tran

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can perhaps answer that question. The passport program is currently on the website, but there is a form in PDF format. So it's a PDF form that you would download. As the deputy indicated, we are leveraging the global case management system, and we would be moving the passpor