Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is no additional funding allocated in this year's main estimates for eTA processing. The approval rates for eTAs is 99%, and the vast majority of applications are processed within minutes. That said, we do realize that when those eTA applications fall out, it takes a little

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Passport fees go into the passport revolving fund, and then the fees are utilized to pay for the cost of the passport program, including capital and operating costs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are opportunities within the express entry system to do draws for skilled trades. Under the express entry system there is a skilled worker program, the Canadian experience class, and a federal skilled trade program. We do draws for skilled trades to come in through that pro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, as part of the resettlement assistance program, we provide significant upfront assistance in terms of income support and also services to resettle refugees. Then, as they have been here for a little while, they transition into regular settlement services. As the Syrian

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, this year's main estimates include an increase of $112 million for the Canada-Québec Accord, and that makes a total of $490 million to be provided to the Government of Québec. It is provided for the settlement and integration services that the Government of Québec prov

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our fees are published, and we would be happy to provide them to the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The revenue. On an annual basis?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That information is available, and certainly we can provide it. I would just note that the passport program is just entering the second half of its business cycle, so we are starting to see the drop in business demand and revenues that was expected, so while there is a surplus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a variety of streams under which economic immigrants can enter Canada, including the federal express entry program, which does have the opportunity to do draws for skilled trades when there is sufficient demand. Provincial nominee programs also provide significant opp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. This program has been very enthusiastically subscribed by Canadian organizations, and we have an inventory [Technical difficulty—Editor] applications that it will take a number of years for us to process. We have capped the applications for sponsorship agreement

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would propose to come back to the chair with that information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you mean the backlog of one-year window?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We will provide that information to the committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to note to the committee that the live-in caregiver inventory is now below 12,000, and we expect to meet our commitment of processing 80% of the existing inventory by December of 2018.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we have that breakdown, we will provide it to the committee. I'm not sure that we keep track of things in exactly that way, but we will do our best.