Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's difficult to state, Mr. Chair, the impact of the amendment without seeing the wording of it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm aware that there are cases where people complain through the human rights complaint mechanism, and where we sometimes come to an agreement, for example. Whether or not the wording that's proposed here would result in a different treatment for those individuals is hard to say

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have the exact number of Human Rights Commission complaints, but I'm sure that the Canadian Human Rights Commission website would have an indication of examples there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have outlined the accommodations that we provide already to applicants, and we are subject to the Canadian human rights legislation. As to what additional obligations this may pose in law, I can't say.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, could you repeat your question, Ms. Rempel?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've outlined some of the things we do—providing access for people who have mobility issues, providing sign language interpretation for people who are deaf, providing personal assistance where it's required. In terms of the requirement to meet language and knowledge, and those wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, I can certainly speak to what the department currently does in terms of accommodation. We ask applicants on the application form to identify if they have a need and we accommodate that need by providing wheelchair access, sign language interpretation that we pay

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to correct my response to Mr. Tilson's questions during my April 12 appearance about the new seizure of document authority in Bill C-6. Mr. Tilson asked about the grounds under which the new seizure authority could be exercised. During that exchan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can say that 80% of the cases will be processed within a year. There are some older cases that have residence questionnaires attached to them that we're dealing with as quickly as possible. For any new cases we try to be more targeted in the information we request. Sometimes we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a very low percentage. It's around 2% for language and knowledge—one or the other.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Two per cent of applicants are refused on language or knowledge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends on volumes, obviously. We have a service standard in place for applications received on or after April 1, 2015, that 80% of those will be processed within 12 months. We are achieving that target. The first step is that it goes to a case processing centre in Sydney.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's within a reasonable period of time. I think that between two and four weeks they're rescheduled for another test.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure exactly with regard to between the second test and the hearing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The service standard in place for applications received on or after April 1, 2015 is that about 80% of those are processed within 12 months. If someone receives a residence questionnaire, it becomes a non-routine application that is not then subject to that service standard. It