Human Resources committee  Without knowing the particulars of what stream or programs they're seeking to achieve permanent residence through, it's difficult for me to comment, but for foreign workers in particular there are several streams available, whether it's the federal skilled worker program or the C

Human Resources committee  Again it comes down to there being a limited number of spaces every year in the levels plan, and there is essentially competition for those spaces.

Human Resources committee  Just for clarification, are you talking about the temporary resident side or the permanent resident side?

Human Resources committee  I think Minister McCallum has been very clear that addressing longer processing times is a priority for him, and he has made public statements to that effect. I would note that processing times vary depending on what stream individuals are coming through. In any case, I've menti

Human Resources committee  Let me make a point of clarification, that of course Minister McCallum is responsible for the international mobility program, which is the aspect of foreign workers coming in without the requirement for a labour market test. There are a number of elements to that overall program.

Human Resources committee  It's a complicated answer. There are a number of factors at play. One has been that generally, as you may know, under our annual levels plan there is every year a limited number of spaces, and there is traditionally more interest in coming to Canada as a permanent resident than s

Human Resources committee  Under the permanent resident streams, and there are different permanent resident programs, there are significant factors that have to be assessed, both eligibility for the program as well as admissibility, health, safety, and security aspects.

Human Resources committee  Just to speak on the permanent resident side, which is differently managed and has a different context from entries on the temporary side, to begin with we have a managed approach to permanent resident migration, which means that we have a levels plan every year that sets out the

Human Resources committee  Processing times under our permanent residence streams vary, but for those applications being managed through the express entry system the processing standard is six months, and that is from the moment when an individual is invited to apply for permanent residence. That processin

Status of Women committee  In a very general way, I would say that at least part of the value is identifying risks or considerations that, if not thought through at the front end of the policy program development process, could be costly in terms of resources because of having to go in after the fact and m

Status of Women committee  We do monitor the data of the people who are landing within those various categories. Probably at the more macro level, we're not doing the GBA analysis. When we're looking at developing new policies or programs—for instance, to encourage transitions from temporary residence to p

Status of Women committee  Just to clarify, this is actually an initiative that is in our minister's mandate letter, so it is something that we have not yet done but are exploring doing in the future. The idea there is that, yes, a dependent child is currently defined as 19 or under. The mandate letter c

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. It's fair to say that we do the GBA analysis as a matter of course when we're developing new policy proposals. In terms of the conditional permanent resident initiative, I think what came up through that analysis was the fact that this condition could place some

Status of Women committee  If I could just add to that, I think one of the things that I ideally would like to achieve as champion is to create an environment where there are in fact multiple champions across the organization. Fraser was talking a bit about the training and the mandatory training and so o

Status of Women committee  I can give you a relatively narrow but concrete example of where it's made a difference. When we're designing economic immigration policies and programs, some of them involve work experience requirements. In developing the federal skilled trades program and a decision to requir