Citizenship and Immigration committee  I recommend 24.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This may not be appropriate within Canada, but within the Middle East....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They have the maturity, but do they have the financial resources within our community? They do not. We are seeing Syrian children right now taking care of and acting on behalf of their parents. They have been hardened. The Middle East is going through, and has gone through, such

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do not want dependency either. If someone is able to work and is then able to take care of their parents and grandparents or someone who is unwell, if the 18-year-old can meet that minimum financial requirement, that's fine.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It has only caused problems for those who haven't been in Canada for three years. Clients who have come in the last two years need to produce three years' worth of tax returns.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll start, and then Zena will add to it. Over the past almost two years, we've begun to see that the Syrian newcomers who have come in are younger parents. They are parents who are 15-year-olds or 16-year-olds who have two or three children. They may not have been with the file

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we strongly recommend training of IRCC officers—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —so they will know more about—sorry, Mr. Chairman—the culture that they are dealing with, and more about the people that will be brought over.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To mitigate, for example, the security check, we have full confidence in the Canadian government to go through the security screening. In terms of the cases that we are seeing and that are coming to our office at the moment, just this past week we had two cases that were deemed n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. Can I take this first?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Over the past six months, or eight months or so, we have been hearing from the Yemeni community. The Yemeni community is new to our centre. We haven't seen as many clients as the Yemeni community come in. This is an example. They are convention refugees. They've becom

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It can take more than a year. It can take up to two years, and medicals are only good for six months. If it's, let's say, a wife and three children, and they need to pay about $200 per person for a medical checkup, then that's $600 twice a year to get the medical checkups again.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. We are seeing larger families, and we have been seeing that over the past maybe year and a half or so. To give you an example, two weeks ago, we had a client who came into our office wanting to sponsor his parents from the Middle East. He has seven children. He and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I feel that the amount should be up to 30,000 a year, parents and grandparents.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll take that on. The number to bring in at the moment is 10,000.