Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I just have a few comments. I think you're asking about refugees in particular. We do see good results with refugees over a period of a number of years. In 2016, for example, refugees accounted for 3% of the labour force, while immigrants made up about 24%, but consi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly for the settlement service money that our department manages with some hundreds of groups across the country—with a fairly large percentage of that money being focused on language training—we think it's obviously critical that those investments are made, in particular f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we don't have that information now, but on the question of whether or not we have a plan, we are looking at how we can work with provinces to better understand the people who go on social assistance and who do not pick up our work permits, and how we can link that data

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. The U.S. applies the safe third country agreement in exactly the reciprocal fashion that we apply it for south-north traffic.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, for that specific question we would have to look back in the historical record to see where people arrived. What I can say, which perhaps is somewhat helpful, is that the major change is that before the agreement, obviously, people were not sent back to the U.S. thro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can say we've had a high volume of applications for proof of citizenship. The average annual intake was 55,000 over the past five years. I'm trying to see what the overall increase is. We might have to come back to you with that, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can do that, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since December 1, 2017, up until May 19, there have been 1,022 asylum claims from Romania.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I think I said last time on this question, the government is not sharing what that line is. There is a threshold in place, but out of respect for the relationship with Romania, the government is not releasing that threshold publicly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're looking at the policy framework. That should come forth within months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I should come back with specifics and I'll be happy to do that, to break out exactly where that money is going.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our minister has commented that the guide will have that term in it. It's yet to be seen exactly how that will be written, but he has stated that the guide will reference—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would need to look at exactly what the minister said, but he did state that it's certainly not going to be pro female genital mutilation when it comes out. We're still finalizing the guide, but it will be there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.