Citizenship and Immigration committee  The cost for a government-assisted refugee is normally about $25,000 to $26,000, which includes the settlement and the resettlement costs. For privately sponsored refugees, it costs about $13,500.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When a department does cost modelling, it must consider several factors to determine the total cost of the initiative. As the deputy minister mentioned, we have to check whether it is within or outside the immigration reference levels that have been approved by Parliament. Consi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we've done those analyses. We have this information in the case of 10,000, 20,000 and 30,000 additional applications in the family class.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For 10,000 additional admission applications for parents and grandparents, the total cost is about $45 million, which includes the costs of the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, as well as of our partners.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. As I was about to say, with cost modelling, we also have to consider the department's capacity. In the processing of 20,000 or 30,000 additional applications, we need to consider the infrastructure and training of new employees. Given that the increase is considerable, we hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have those figures.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The cost of processing 30,000 additional applications varies between $150 and $160 million.