Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I think “hearing” is the correct term, Mr. Chair. I would also state that at the hearing—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Officials of IRCC.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, these are individuals who are trained to make a determination about refugee status similar to the way the IRB members are trained. They are looking at the very same issues. They are looking at the refugee convention and at the convention against torture. These are ind

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The total backlog is just about 80,000. I would have to look and see. You asked specifically about the irregular portion of that. We can look at that, but the total is 80,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Zero.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll check further, but I believe it was 2018, because that was in reference to the meeting that the minister was having.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Which one is that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is that associated with the $3 million that I just spoke about? I'm just not familiar with that terminology.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. It's just a technological solution to share information between pipes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. That $3 million is associated with building a technological interface between our department and ESDC to share information around compliance of temporary foreign workers, so there's no link to caregivers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On irregular asylum claims from January 1 to October 28, 2018, we have Nigeria at just over 7,000; the U.S.A. at 971, and that's primarily children who were born in the U.S.; Colombia, 934; Pakistan, 569; Haiti, 554; and then “other”, at about 7,000. That's just over 17,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We could share those numbers with you. Generally, this year, Mr. Chair, I would say it's about 50%, but it depends upon the country. Some countries have high rejection rates. We have those figures and would be happy to share the overall figures with the table.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't provide you with an exact estimate, but I can say that the work we're doing associated with more permanent pathways for temporary foreign workers is just with the teams and the policy people we have in the department now. It's not an incremental that we're getting to do t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd be happy to table that information, but I can give you a sense of it if you don't mind me using the time. We do a lot of workshops, for example, in Central America that look at capacity-building issues around visa and passport issuance. We work with the International Organiz

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, this year—2018—we're expecting approximately 50,000 asylum claims overall. Ms. Kwan, you might have been asking about the backlog at the IRB. As of October this year, there are about 69,000 decisions pending. In terms of 2020, I wouldn't want to suggest what that nu