Citizenship and Immigration committee  This year, in 2018-19, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship plans to spend about $14 million for temporary housing, which includes hotels.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The department's strategy consists in coordinating the efforts deployed by all of the departments to disrupt the organized passage of clandestine individuals likely to head toward Canada, and we encourage co-operation among foreign countries by strengthening their capacity to det

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do not accept emergency funds. The department's vote 5a is a capital expenditure credit. It will be used for computer systems that are being developed. So it is not the same vote 5a as that of the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is the central reserve. Vote 5 for Immigratio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I can answer the question on the number of full-time employees in supplementary estimates (A). It is in the line which has the funding to support the use and protection of classified information in immigration proceeding. This initiative was renewed on a permanent b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to add that the transfer of $650,000 was to meet the growing need for Canadian expertise in the execution and implementation of immigration policy and refugee protection policy at the international level. This is an internal transfer between our integration level and tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have that information and I will give it to you in a few moments. In the meantime, perhaps we could go on to the next question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, the amount of $2.7 million in supplementary estimates (A) is needed because of a delay in the project last year. So, these are funds from last year that are being transferred to this year. They are not additional funds, but the request is due to a delay in the implemen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, not within those amounts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The capital investments are for our information technology systems, including the Global Case Management System, or GCMS, used by the department. So these are investments in technology that allows us to improve our processing times.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we can provide that information. We have transferred additional funds to the missions in Dakar, Accra, Bangalore and Gansu in order to increase the presence of immigration officers abroad. We had to expand our activities in the missions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are correct. No funds have been allocated to the Immigration and Refugee Board, the IRB, in supplementary estimates (B).

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The advertising campaign was conducted in Canada on social media, in the newspapers and on the radio. These three means of communication were used.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Why isn't there a request for additional funding for this? The reason is that Mr. Trump's new order has just been implemented. According to our estimates, the money requested in the supplementary estimates (C) and the funds from the main estimates are enough to meet current needs

Citizenship and Immigration committee  According to our estimates, the money we're requesting is enough to meet current needs. At the moment, no additional needs are anticipated.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, yes, that's—