Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the minister indicated in his opening remarks, the Prime Minister in his mandate letter to the minister asked that a review of the visa policy framework be undertaken and that review is now being initiated. It is part of the standard practice to take a look on a regular basis

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At the end of the day, although we'll take a look at the approach going forward with respect to the visa policy framework, decisions that have already been taken have been taken. I cannot see how the review of our approach to considering visa lifts or the imposition of visas woul

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are various ways in which this information was disseminated to newcomers. Ms. Edlund is motioning to me, so it sounds as though she has some details, or perhaps Mr. Mills does.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just reiterate what the minister said. It's a quasi-statutory authority. It starts at about $50 million, and throughout the year we access additional funds as required. What you see reflected here in supplementary estimates (C) seeks to access an additional $10 million as

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As was announced, the visa lift for Romania and Bulgaria will come into effect on December 1, 2017, but there is a phased lift to Romania and Bulgaria, such that an advanced form of electronic travel authorization will come into effect May 1 for so-called low-risk travellers from

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just as a point of clarification in terms of the question, was that with respect to the department or the IRB?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the IRB, that's not within the department's purview, of course. But to go to the member's question with respect to that, the IRB, as the minister previously said, is already facing a number of pressures and recent events will only give rise to further pressures. As we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is no allocation in the supplementary estimates (C) or in the main estimates with respect to your question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have much to add beyond what the minister has said—I'll turn it over to Mr. Manicom if he wants to add anything—other than to say that this is a very serious issue, one that I know the minister and the department take seriously. We've discussed this with the Immigration a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Very quickly, with this particular cohort we have looked at a variety of options, again in collaboration with the IRB. As always with tough challenges, there are numerous different types of program and policy responses, and legal approaches as well. We are looking at the full ran

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we could follow up afterwards with respect to this question. Normally after there is legislation, there are subsequent pieces of regulation to support the legislation and to fill in the gaps and provide more detail. I'm not particularly aware of this issue. I'd have to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is an undertaking, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Minister. I'll turn it over to Mr. Orr in a moment. The $25 million from budget 2016 was dedicated to attacking the inventory and reducing the processing time for the family class. At the time when this was announced, the processing times for family class both within